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> (...) but if he really wanted them to do something specific (...)

Musk pledged donating orders of magnitude more to OpenAI when he wanted to take over the organization, and reneged on his pledge when the takeover failed and instead went the "fox and the grapes" path of accusing OpenAI of being a failure.

It took Microsoft injecting billions in funding to get OpenAI to be where it is today.

It's pathetic how Elon Musk is now complaining his insignificant contribution granted him a stake in the organization's output when we look back at reality and see it contrast with his claims.



Elon was the largest donator in 2015, Microsoft didn't inject any money until the team was set up and their tech proven in 2019 with GPT-2. Four years is huge in tech, and especially in the AI area.

It seems you are really trying to bend reality to leave a hate comment on Elon. Your beef might be justified, but it's hard to call his contribution insignificant.


This is a tangential point, but at least in American English the expression “sour grapes” is a shorthand for the fable you’re referring to.




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