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“very limited I still provide some financial support and…”

Elon Musk to Gabe Newell, November 2, 2018

In a Nov 2, 2018 reply to Valve co-founder Gabe Newell, Musk describes his involvement with OpenAI at that point. Quoted in a declaration by plaintiffs' damages expert C. Paul Wazzan.

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Elon Musk
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Friday, November 2, 2018
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Gabe Newell
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very limited [...] I still provide some financial support and get verbal and email updates every few weeks from Sam Altman, but don’t spend time there. I lost confidence that OpenAI could muster the resources to serve as an effective counterweight to Google/Deepmind and decided to attempt that through Tesla instead.
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  1. Apr 23, 2018 Shivon Zilis Updated info per a conversation with Altman. You’re tentatively set to speak with him on Tuesday. Financing:…
  2. Apr 23, 2018 Elon Musk Ok by me
  3. Apr 28, 2018 Elon Musk I hereby resign as a director of OpenAI, Inc., effective February 21, 2018.
  4. Nov 2, 2018 Elon Musk very limited [...] I still provide some financial support and get verbal and email updates every few weeks…