Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and outgoing Twitter CEO, recently claimed he donated $100 million to ChatGPT developer OpenAI. The tech entrepreneur tried to take control of OpenAI in 2018, only to be rejected by Sam Altman and the other founders. Musk then publicly reduced his donation claim to $50 million, and a report has now revealed that only around $15 million can be traced back to Musk.
OpenAI is a San Francisco-based AI research laboratory co-founded by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, Elon Musk, and others in 2015. The organization conducts research into artificial intelligence with the purpose of entering a future of extremely capable, safe, artificially intelligent agents. Microsoft later invested around $1 billion in OpenAI.
Elon Musk is a renowned tech entrepreneur, investor, and engineer. Forbes listed him as one of the world’s wealthiest people in 2020. He founded Zip2, SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink. Musk was formerly the Chairman of SolarCity and the CEO of OpenAI. He has been credited with the creation or advancement of autonomous transport, neural networks, and space exploration. He has also made significant efforts in philanthropy and campaigned to reduce global warming.
