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OpenAI’s Brockman details wild meeting with Elon Musk: ‘I thought he was going to physically attack me’

Nypost · · 765 words · By Marc Vartabedian
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“OpenAI’s president Greg Brockman detailed a wild meeting in 2017 with Elon Musk in which the co-founders tussled over ownership stakes in the company”
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Multiple web search results from different news sources (including Reuters and others) confirm that Greg Brockman detailed a 2017 meeting with Elon Musk regarding ownership stakes.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gregory Brockman (born November 29, 1987) is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is co-founder and president of OpenAI. He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and beca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The legal affairs of Elon Musk encompass the legal cases involving Elon Musk as the plaintiff, defendant, or concerning his companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Elon_Musk
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Musk v. Altman is an ongoing lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in which Elon Musk accuses OpenAI and its executives, including CEO Sam Altman, of viol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_v._Altman
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“Brockman claimed Musk showed up to meet him along with other OpenAI top brass to negotiate their equity stakes in the for profit company that would eventually launch ChatGPT.”
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Web search results confirm Brockman's testimony regarding a meeting with Musk and other top brass to negotiate equity stakes in the company.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Gregory Brockman (born November 29, 1987) is an American entrepreneur and software engineer. He is co-founder and president of OpenAI. He began his career at Stripe in 2010, upon leaving MIT, and beca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Brockman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The legal affairs of Elon Musk encompass the legal cases involving Elon Musk as the plaintiff, defendant, or concerning his companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Elon_Musk
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Musk v. Altman is an ongoing lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California in which Elon Musk accuses OpenAI and its executives, including CEO Sam Altman, of viol…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musk_v._Altman
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“Brockman said Musk personally gifted free Teslas to him, Ilya Sutskever and others”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The legal affairs of Elon Musk encompass the legal cases involving Elon Musk as the plaintiff, defendant, or concerning his companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Elon_Musk
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Global, LLC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Franci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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“Sutskever had given Musk a painting of a Tesla car”
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Three independent web search results (MSN/Reuters, and two others) explicitly state that Ilya Sutskever gave Elon Musk a painting of a Tesla car.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of artificial intelligence that matches or surpasses human capabilities across virtually all cognitive tasks. Beyond AGI, artificial superi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI Global, LLC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization consisting of a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC) and a nonprofit foundation, headquartered in San Franci…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman attended Stanford…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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“Musk claiming he needed $80 billion to create a city on Mars”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster is an electric sports car that served as the dummy payload for the February 2018 Falcon Heavy test flight and became an artificial satellite of the Sun. A mannequin in a spa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk's_Tesla_Roadster
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The legal affairs of Elon Musk encompass the legal cases involving Elon Musk as the plaintiff, defendant, or concerning his companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_affairs_of_Elon_Musk
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceX Mars colonization program (also referred to as Occupy Mars as a joking reference to the Occupy movement) is the stated long-term objective of the company SpaceX, and particularly of its founder…
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“Musk then demanded to know when the group would leave OpenAI — and declared that he’d withhold funding until they did.”
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“Musk rejected Brockman’s proposals for equal ownership stakes among the founders”
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Multiple web search results confirm that Brockman and Musk had a tense confrontation and disagreement over potential equity shares/ownership stakes.
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI's president Greg Brockman detailed a wild meeting in 2017 with Elon Musk in which the co-founders tussled over ownership stakes in the company - at one point claiming that he feared ...
https://nypost.com/2026/05/05/business/openais-brockman-deta…
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web search NEUTRAL — OpenAI President Greg Brockman concluded his testimony on Tuesday as the blockbuster trial between the AI startup and Elon Musk rolled into its second week.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/05/open-ai-altman-musk-trial-br…
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web search NEUTRAL — Co-founder Greg Brockman said he had a tense confrontation with Elon Musk after there was a disagreement about potential equity shares in OpenAI.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/openai-co-founder-say…
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“Musk had invited the team to what he called a “haunted mansion” that he had recently bought near San Francisco.”
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“Musk’s girlfriend at the time, Amber Heard, was also there”
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“Musk’s lawsuit, which alleges that Brockman, Altman and OpenAI have violated the company’s charitable mission, is asking for $150 billion in damages”
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“He also wants an order unraveling the for-profit company structure that the company adopted last year.”
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“Brockman wrote in the digital journal in 2017, referring to the idea of converting OpenAI to a for-profit entity. “Financially what will take me to $1B?””
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““We’ve been thinking that maybe we should just flip to a for profit,” Brockman allegedly wrote. “Making the money for us sounds great and all.””
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