Nathaniel Whittemore

OpenAI's lawyers rejected the approach, stating that his, quote, methodology is made up, his results unverifiable, his approach admittedly unprecedented, and his proposed outcome, the transfer of billions of dollars from a nonprofit corporation to a donor-turned-competitor, implausible on its face.

OpenAI, for their part, continued to deny the premise of the lawsuit outside of the courtroom.

In a statement, they said, This latest, unserious demand is aimed solely at furthering this harassment campaign.

Now on X, the discussion centered around pages from Greg Brockman's private notes that were revealed in the new filing.

One especially frequently shared passage from 2017 read, This is the only chance we have to get out from Elon.

Is he the glorious leader that I would pick?

We truly have a chance to make this happen.

Financially, what will take me to $1 billion?

D.D.

Das of Menlo Ventures said, Deep down, it really is about the money.

Now, several other quotes from the filing paint OpenAI in a very poor light.

The quotes.

Altman said, Altman continued,

Elon said he wanted to accumulate $80 billion for a self-sustaining city on Mars and that he needed and deserved majority equity.

He said that he needed full control since he'd been burned by not having it in the past, and when we discussed succession, he surprised us by talking about his children controlling AGI.

Altman continues after that quote, I appreciate people saying what they want and think it enables people to resolve things or not, but Elon saying he wants the above is important context for Greg trying to figure out what he wants.

With the trial less than three months away, the story is unfortunately going to be a big overhang for OpenAI as they try to execute on a pivotal year.

Right signal, this is going to make a lot of people look greedy and ugly.

Hopefully we won't have to spend too much time on this.

I'll probably start to err on only sharing the really big highlights, where it becomes a major, inescapable point of conversation as it has been for the last couple of days.