Musk: 'be explicit that I have no financial interest' in the for-profit

From:: Elon Musk
Date:: March 11, 2019
To:: Sam Altman
Subject:: Bloomberg: AI Research Group Co-Founded by Elon Musk Starts For-Profit Arm

Please be explicit that I have no financial interest in the for-profit arm of OpenAI AI Research Group Co-Founded by Elon Musk Starts For-Profit Arm Bloomberg OpenAI, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research group co-founded by Elon Musk and several other prominent Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, is starting a for-profit arm that will allow it to raise more money. Read the full story Shared from Apple News

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On the day OpenAI LP was announced, Musk forwards a Bloomberg headline to Altman and asks that OpenAI state explicitly that he has no financial interest in the for-profit arm.

Notes

Text taken from the LessWrong transcription (habryka, Nov 16 2024), which the compiler states was checked against the originals. Sent Mar 11, 2019 3:04 PM. Everything after the first line is the Apple News share card for the Bloomberg story.

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Court record; attribution confirmed.

OpenAI, executive & internal. Tags: capped-profit, openai-lp, press, disassociation, musk-v-openai

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