Brockman Says Musk Threatened Him in 2017 OpenAI Control Clash
Brockman said Musk pushed for majority control of a proposed for-profit arm and threatened to withhold funding when co-founders resisted.
- On Tuesday, OpenAI President Greg Brockman testified in federal court that Elon Musk physically threatened him during a 2017 confrontation over control of the artificial intelligence company.
- Weeks before the confrontation, Musk hosted co-founders at his San Francisco-area "haunted mansion" to discuss the company's future, where he began pushing OpenAI to shift from nonprofit to for-profit structure.
- When co-founders rejected his demands for total control, Brockman said Musk "stormed around the table" before grabbing a Tesla Model 3 painting off the wall and threatening to "withhold funding."
- Musk alleges his $38 million donation was misappropriated to build a for-profit entity, claiming "they stole my charity," while OpenAI counters that Musk left voluntarily in 2018 and later became a competitor through xAI.
- The federal trial in California is expected to conclude by May 21, with Musk seeking billions in damages; two days before proceedings began, Musk texted Brockman warning they would become "the most hated men in America.
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OpenAI Co-Founder Testifies He Feared Elon Musk Would Hit Him During 2017 Meeting
Photo Credit: Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images This week, proceedings in an Oakland federal courtroom turned attention to a key moment in artificial intelligence’s organizational history. At the center is a 2017 meeting between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s leadership, now under scrutiny in the trial over Musk’s lawsuit against the company he helped launch. Testifying this week at the trial, an OpenAI co-founder said that he feared Musk might strike him du…
Have leading Open AI managers betrayed their non-profit mission because they were keen on money? Elon Musk wants to prove exactly that with excerpts from Greg Brockman's notes.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman testified this Tuesday in a California court that he was afraid that Elon Musk would physically assault him, when an attempt was made to split the shareholding of a profit-making subsidiary of ChatGPT’s parent company. “I actually thought he was going to beat me,” Brockman said.
Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI, told a California jury this Tuesday that billionaire Elon Musk threatened him essentially in a confrontation that occurred in 2017, testifying that the tycoon was furious after he was denied absolute control of the then-born artificial intelligence firm. "I actually thought he was going to beat me," Brockman said on the second day of his appearance at the trial for Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI …
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