Elon Reportedly Pulled Out of OpenAI Because They Wouldn't Let Him Be the Big Boss

Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk once played the Mr. Money Bags role to Silicon Valley's newest darling OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT and DALLE-2. The nonprofit has become the center of the tech world's new obsession with AI, but a new report claims that back in 2018 Musk proposed he take over the nonprofit research lab entirely. Musk was a well-known financier for the fledgling startup that came on the scene back in 2015. He and other big tech powerhouses like Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel all put money totalling more than $1 billion into the venture. Musk once sat as co-chair of the group and was there when the nonprofit wanted to train its systems on Reddit posts.