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We are now discussing the OpenAI Foundation layoffs.
Musk’s lawyer, Molo, is saying that first of all, Brockman actually did the layoffs, and second of all, a memo prepared by Ilya Sutskever contained criticism of Brockman as a manager. Shortly after the memo was prepared, Brockman was removed from the board.
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cnbc.com
Musk sought settlement with OpenAI before Oakland trial, filing shows
Musk is seeking changes to OpenAI's leadership and $150 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, one of its largest investors.
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Musk texted OpenAI's Brockman about settlement two days before trial began
Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and sued the company, President Greg Brockman and CEO Sam Altman in 2024.
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theverge.com
Greg Brockman tells the court that while at OpenAI, he and three others worked at Tesla.
Elon Musk requested that they come help. “It was pretty clear this was not something we could say no to,” Brockman says. Brockman claims this was something he worried about when…
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OpenAI had layoffs at Musk’s insistence.
Five to 10 people were laid off after Musk demanded a list of people with their contributions by their names. It had a “significantly negative” impact on morale and made…
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Sam Altman discussed an equal equity split…
between Altman, Musk, Brockman, and Sutskever in August 2017. It was the first proposal for a for-profit. Musk rejected this. “At the end of the meeting he said, ‘You guys are…
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Elon Musk doesn’t love anything he can’t control.
Brockman is discussing an intense period of negotiations between him, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, and Musk. Musk wanted unilateral control. He also wanted a lot of equity because…
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“I thought he was going to hit me,” Brockman says of Musk.
“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…
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We are back from a break.
Greg Brockman is explaining that Musk put conditions on his continuing donations at OpenAI, which he did not accept. Then Musk said they should merge OAI into Tesla. They’d get…
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There were discussions between Brockman, Altman, and Sutskever about removing Musk from the board.
“Ilya and myself” decided not to remove him from the board because it felt right for the mission but wrong personally. By that point, Musk was trying to get them all to join…
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We are now recontextualizing more entries from Brockman.
Some more successfully than others. While I’m willing to believe the “steal the charity” line is about booting Musk from the board, the idea that “making the money for us sounds…
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The blip.
Brockman says he was told he was removed from the board in an eight-minute call, and not given a reason why. He was also told Sam Altman was fired. Shortly after, he quit. “The…
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Microsoft is done, bless them.
Musk’s team is getting another crack at Brockman.
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We are now discussing the OpenAI Foundation layoffs.
Musk’s lawyer, Molo, is saying that first of all, Brockman actually did the layoffs, and second of all, a memo prepared by Ilya Sutskever contained criticism of Brockman as a…
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Molo asks Brockman if Musk was “being mean” to him.
Brockman is being really squishy about this — I mean, he did say that he thought Musk was going to hit him at one point. Molo is I think trying to make the point that Musk was…
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“You had no problems answering your lawyers’ questions,” Molo is practically yelling.
“Did you practice them?” Molo is really not into the various ways that Brockman is objecting to the wording of his questions. I’m not sure how sympathetic the jury is to either of…
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Molo is trying to reiterate what he did more effectively yesterday.
The problem is that the chronology of Brockman’s negotiations with Musk is now working against him. We have multiple emails and texts with Musk proposing that he be in charge,…
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bbc.com
'I thought he was going to hit me' OpenAI co-founder says of Musk
Brockman spoke during the second week of a month-long trial between Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman.
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Every time Molo makes a summary of Brockman’s testimony, Brockman objects to it.
For instance, yesterday, Brockman gave a long spiel about the setup of OpenAI that only tangentially involved Musk. Altman and Sutskever were portrayed as being in the middle of…
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Brockman is telling the truth about considering removing Musk from the board.
Molo asked a very narrow question about texts or emails about removing Musk from the board. Then he accused Brockman of making up the explanation after the fact because of the…
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Brockman steps down. We are looking at the video deposition of Robert Wu.
We are now looking at assorted legal documents with him. We have determined the board has approved the agreement of 2018, which is the initial formation of the for-profit OpenAI…