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MSFT hosting deal

Sam Teller to Elon Musk, September 20, 2016

Teller relays Microsoft's revised offer for the OpenAI compute agreement and asks whether to proceed.

Exhibit
From
Sam Teller
Sent
Tuesday, September 20, 2016 8:05 PM
To
Elon Musk
Subject
MSFT hosting deal
Microsoft is now willing to do the agreement for a full $50m with “good faith effort at OpenAI's sole discretion” and full mutual termination rights at any time. No evangelizing. No strings attached. No looking like lame Microsoft marketing pawns. Ok to move ahead?
EMX-000060

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…