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OpenAI said in a court filing today that Elon Musk wanted OpenAI to turn into a for-profit company years ago,Axios' Ina Fried reports.
Why it matters: Musk is suing to block OpenAI's planned transition from a nonprofit research lab into a for-profit corporation. Musk helped found OpenAI, but has since become a critic and AI competitor.
📧 OpenAI's new filing includes emails, sent before the breakup, in which Musk endorsed a for-profit structure — one where he would have had most of the equity.
"Probably better to have a standard C corp with a parallel nonprofit," Musk wrote in 2015, according to OpenAI.
