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Re: microsoft/openAI

Elon Musk to Sam Altman, August 30, 2016

Musk agrees to call Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella if the terms are decent.

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From
Elon Musk
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016 6:25 AM (UTC)
To
Sam Altman
Subject
Re: microsoft/openAI
Sounds good I will call Satya if we get to decent terms. A simple text blog expressing appreciation of Microsoft's donation on our website will help them a lot. They can always point people to that.
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