He also doesn’t remember a bunch of things Musk’s lawyer is asking about. I fully believe him on this — feels like Scott’s only real interest is the tech. He was so happy talking about Azure and he is very lost talking about partnership agreements.
She seems confused by a CTO not knowing what revenue had been generated. Scott noted he was not the chief revenue officer. He seemed amused.
He has testified that the company liked the idea of partnering with OpenAI in part because it would show how to build out Azure for AI frontier research. It’s pleasantly boring.
He said he sometimes used strong language at work, but might have said something like, “Don’t be a jackass.” So in addition to being hilarious, the trophy also makes him look like a liar.
There is a trophy that OpenAI has brought in, that’s half of a donkey — the back half — and says, “Never stop being a jackass.” It’s a commemoration OpenAI employees bought for another employee that Musk called a jackass on the way out on his last day. Musk’s team does not want the trophy in evidence.
Elon Musk may have done more long-term reputational damage to the OpenAI CEO.
Anyway, he’s a member of the nonprofit board of the OpenAI foundation, but not the for-profit. He’s a safety expert.
He’s a Carnegie Mellon prof who focuses on safety and security.
Altman said — and evidence in the direct showed — that Altman had made sure Musk knew about Microsoft. “I would often have to remind Musk of things, but this one I assumed we had talked about enough times that he would remember,” Altman says. Of Musk’s attitude toward OpenAI, he says, “we were kind of left for dead.”