Liz Lopatto

And he had previously made this commitment, I think, for $100 million, and I think he had only paid $30.

So he kind of leaves OpenAI in the lurch.

And this matters because one of the approaches that open AI famously took and has gotten us to where it is today is the very expensive approach of just buying as much compute as possible.

Just throw compute at the problem and that'll fix AI.

And so they have these very expensive scientists.

They need to buy very expensive compute.

And their big funder has just walked off.

And so they open this for-profit arm.

They wind up making a deal with Microsoft.

And that is sort of the genesis of OpenAI as we know it today.

Because the thought was that without a return on investment, it was going to be much harder to get people to donate the amounts of money that they needed.

Right.

And, like, to be clear...

When Musk was still at the company, this was something he had also discussed with them.

Like, we've seen this in emails.

So it's not like this totally came out of nowhere.

You know, it was something that they were kicking back and forth before, like, Musk took his ball and went home.

So, you know, time goes by.

Yeah.

And then we hit this sort of point where all of these AI companies are angling to go public.