“I thought he was going to hit me,” Brockman says of Musk.

Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

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“I truly thought he was going to physically attack me.” Musk was angry that no one wanted to agree for him to have majority equity. As he was storming out of the meeting, Musk asked Brockman and Sutskever when they planned to leave OpenAI. They were confused. Then Musk said, “I will withhold funding until you decide what you are going to do.” He then stopped his promised quarterly donations to OpenAI.

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