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Elon Musk Attempted to Hire OpenAI Founders for Tesla AI Lab
May 8, 2026
OpenAI's court filings allege Elon Musk attempted in 2018 to recruit founding members Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever to build a rival AI lab inside Tesla, directly undermining his public narrative that OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission. The disclosure adds material context to ongoing litigation over OpenAI's corporate structure.
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