OpenAI Emails Reveal Musk Once Backed Away From Open Source Before Feud Over Nonprofit's Direction
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OpenAI published a blog post with archived emails showing Elon Musk once supported pivoting away from open source as they pursued AGI.
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The emails imply the "open" in OpenAI meant everyone should benefit from AGI after it's built, not that research had to be open source.
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Musk sued OpenAI accusing it of deviating from its nonprofit mission and failing to make advancements open source and freely available.
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OpenAI defends itself by redefining "open" to mean making AI "broadly usable" to empower people, including via open source.
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OpenAI plans to move to dismiss Musk's lawsuit, suggesting the conflict has become more of a bitter feud between former partners.