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OpenAI lawyers argue that Elon was right in the middle of discussions about a for-profit pivot.

According to Savitt, once Brockman and Ilya Sutskever built an AI model capable of besting DOTA 2 players in 2017 and realized the importance of compute, they held dozens of meetings that included Musk, Jared Birchall (CEO of Neuralink and Musk’s long-time wealth manager), and Shivon Zilis (you know), about how to structure OpenAI for-profit.

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