Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI
by mattmaroon on Monday February 10, 2025 @08:40PM
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Among other things, the terms of a legal settlement with the other people who "founded" it.
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Re:Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4B Bid for Control of OpenAI
by Retric on Monday February 10, 2025 @10:30PM
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So him paying people somehow changes what happened?
“In 2009, Eberhard filed a lawsuit against Musk for slander and libel. As per NBC Bay Area, the lawsuit was settled, and as a condition of the settlement, Musk and two other Tesla executives, JB Straubel and Ian Wright, are now allowed to call themselves co-founders, in addition to Eberhard and Tarpenning.”
He had zero involvement for ~1 year, invested some money and then five years later he’s CEO. That’s hardly the definition of founding anything.