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Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies
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Musk mulled handing OpenAI to his children, Altman testifies

By Tim FernholzMay 12, 2026·Source: TechCrunch·7 views

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Altman said that Musk's focus on controlling the initial for-profit gave him pause because OpenAI was dedicated to keeping advanced AI out of the hands of a single person, and Altman, with his experience running the prominent startup accelerator Y Combinator, knew "founders who had control usually did not give it up."

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