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MSFT hosting deal

Elon Musk to Sam Altman, September 16, 2016

Musk responds to the proposed Microsoft term sheet.

Exhibit
From
Elon Musk
Sent
Friday, September 16, 2016 3:10 PM
To
Sam Altman
Cc
Sam Teller
Subject
MSFT hosting deal
This actually made me feel nauseous. It sucks and is exactly what I would expect from them. Evaluation, Evangelization, and Usage of CNTK v2, Azure Batch and HD-Insight: OpenAI will evaluate CNTK v2, Azure Batch, and HD-Insight for their research, provide feedback on how Microsoft can improve these products. OpenAI will work with Microsoft to evangelize these products to their research and developer ecosystems, and evangelize Microsoft Azure as their preferred public cloud provider. At their sole discretion, and as it makes sense for their research, OpenAI will adopt these products Let’s just say that we are willing to have Microsoft donate spare computing time to OpenAI and have that be known, but we want do any contract or agree to “evangelize”. They can turn us off at any time and we can leave at any time.
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The whole thread

  1. Sep 16, 2016 Elon Musk We should just do this low key. No certainty either way. No contract.
  2. Sep 16, 2016 Sam Altman Here are the MSFT terms. $60MM of compute for $10MM, and input from us on what they deploy in the cloud. LMK…
  3. Sep 16, 2016 Elon Musk This actually made me feel nauseous. It sucks and is exactly what I would expect from them. Evaluation,…
  4. Sep 16, 2016 Sam Altman I had the same reaction after reading that section and they've already agreed to drop. We had originally just…
  5. Sep 20, 2016 Sam Teller Microsoft is now willing to do the agreement for a full $50m with “good faith effort at OpenAI's sole…
  6. Sep 21, 2016 Elon Musk Fine by me if they don't use this in active messaging. Would be worth way more than $50M not to seem like…