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Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor known for co-founding OpenAI and leading it as CEO.
… Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a “fool” out of him after Musk donated $38 million to kick-start OpenAI as a nonprofit, only to later be blindsided when OpenAI created a for-profit arm that he felt gutted funding for the charity while enriching executives like Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. …
Just days before the trial started, Elon Musk tried to settle his lawsuit, which alleges that under Sam Altman’s direction, OpenAI abandoned its mission to serve as a nonprofit making AI to benefit humanity. …
… To prove that Musk’s case is a nothing burger, they’ve dedicated considerable time to discussing documents that suggest that Musk would have at least been open to making many of the same moves that Altman did after Musk left OpenAI. …
… The entries cited during the trial were written between 2015, when OpenAI was founded, and 2023, when Brockman and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were briefly ousted as leaders over the OpenAI board’s alleged safety concerns. …