CyrilXBT|Apr 30, 2026 09:28
SAM ALTMAN CALLED OPENAI A "COMPANY" TO ELON MUSK'S FACE IN 2015.
Elon stopped him cold.
"OpenAI is structured as a 501(c)3 nonprofit."
Not a company. A nonprofit. Built specifically so no one would ever profit from it.
Sam nodded.
Then spent the next 10 years running it.
Then converted it into a for-profit company valued at $300 billion.
With shareholders.
With investors expecting returns.
The correction Elon gave him in that interview was not a small vocabulary note.
It was the entire point of OpenAI's existence.
The nonprofit structure was not a legal technicality.
It was the promise.
The thing that made it different from every other AI lab racing to make money.
Sam knew that in 2015.
He was corrected on it by the co-founder in real time.
And then he changed the structure anyway.
The interview exists.
The correction is on tape.
The conversion happened.
@elonmusk is in court arguing this exact point right now.
The evidence is the 2015 interview.
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