Thread traces why Musk founded OpenAI as a nonprofit counterweight to Google
XFreeze · x · 2026-09-13
A long post argues Elon Musk is the reason OpenAI exists: he founded it as a fully nonprofit counterbalance to Google, spurred by a conversation where Larry Page called him a "speciesist" for prioritizing humans. The author frames Musk's ongoing lawsuit as a decade-long effort to keep OpenAI tied to its charitable mission.
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