Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

OpenAI said on December 13, 2024 that Elon Musk pushed in 2017 to convert OpenAI into a for-profit and sought majority equity, absolute control, and the CEO role. The post includes a timeline and email excerpts, saying Musk formed “Open Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc.” on September 15, 2017, and that OpenAI rejected those terms. The real signal is the capital logic: the post says the team concluded in 2017 that AGI would need billions in compute, with Ilya Sutskever referencing hardware spend below $10B.

Why it matters: HKR-H/K/R all pass: the headline has a real reversal, and the post adds specific 2017 control demands plus concrete compute-cost claims. It stays at 80 because this is a one-sided OpenAI legal narrative, not an independently verified product or research release.