Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI founders to start AI unit inside Tesla

Ars Technica
By George Hammond, Financial TimesMay 7, 2026, 9:14 am51 pts
Elon Musk tried to hire OpenAI’s founding team, including Sam Altman, to lead a new AI lab within Tesla in 2018, as the AI start-up’s leaders grappled over who should control the company and its direction. Musk, a co-founder of the AI group, proposed bringing Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever to his…

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