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Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

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“This is a hypothetical.”

Musk is still fending off questions about various messages where he’s mentioned the possibility of a for-profit component at OpenAI, like an email to associates at Neuralink in 2016:

“Deepmind is moving very fast. I am concerned that OpenAI is not on a path to catch up. Setting it up as non-profit might, in hindsight, have been the wrong move. Sense of urgency is not as high.”

Musk says “I’m simply speculating here with people at Neuralink” here, calling the discussion hypothetical. He also brushes off a separate email chain where Greg Brockman mentions a for-profit structure and Musk doesn’t object, saying as long as “the for-profit is in service to the non-profit, it’s not breaking a promise.”

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