Altman and OpenAI's other founders rejected Musk's proposal to take control of OpenAI and run it himself, which is the secret history behind Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and OpenAI.
After three years, Elon Musk was ready to give up on the artificial intelligence research firm he helped found, OpenAI.
The nonprofit had launched in 2015 to great fanfare with backing from billionaire tech luminaries like Musk and Reid Hoffman, who had as a group pledged $1 billion. It had lured some of t...
