'I Thought He Was Going to Hit Me' OpenAI Co-Founder Says of Musk
Brockman said Musk grew angry after he rejected more control and then warned he would withhold funding from OpenAI.
- On Tuesday, OpenAI President Greg Brockman testified in federal court that Elon Musk physically threatened him during a 2017 meeting, claiming the billionaire stormed out after being refused absolute control of the artificial intelligence company.
- During an August 2017 meeting at his $23 million estate, Musk attempted to "butter up" Brockman and co-founder Ilya Sutskever with Tesla Model 3 cars before demanding control of OpenAI's future AI development.
- Musk contends his roughly $38 million in donations were misappropriated, while OpenAI argues the transition to for-profit structure was necessary to build a venture now valued at more than $850 billion.
- The ongoing lawsuit accuses OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman of betraying the company's original nonprofit mission, though Brockman acknowledged Monday that his own stake in the enterprise is valued at $30 billion.
- A jury in the Musk v. Altman trial could begin deliberating on an advisory ruling as soon as next week, with Altman expected to provide his own testimony regarding the company's development.
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Musk ‘was going to hit me,’ OpenAI executive says at trial
OpenAI President Greg Brockman told a California jury Tuesday that Elon Musk physically threatened him during a 2017 confrontation, testifying that the billionaire stormed out after he was refused absolute control of the artificial intelligence company.
At Musk's trial, President of OpenAI Greg Brockman tried on Tuesday to correct the image left the previous day: he described not greedy founders who betrayed a benefactor, but engineers who resisted a multibillionaire thirsty for power and threatening.
OpenAI’s Brockman details wild meeting with Elon Musk: ‘I thought he was going to physically attack me’
OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman detailed a wild meeting in 2017 with Elon Musk in which the co-founders tussled over ownership stakes in the company – at one point claiming that he feared Musk “was going to physically attack me.”
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