OpenAI Says Musk Backed For-Profit Plan Before Trying to Stop It

OpenAI pushed back at Elon Musk’s efforts to block its plan to become a for-profit business by releasing a slew of emails and messages indicating the billionaire originally supported a more traditional corporate structure for the artificial intelligence startup.

The internal communication, published in a blog post on Friday, came in response to Musk’s recent request that a federal court block the startup from pursuing what he called an “illegal” conversion to a for-profit company. Musk’s filing continued a months-long attack on OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, nine years after the two men worked together to launch OpenAI as a nonprofit with ...