The big sticking point for Brockman and Sutskever was control.

They didn’t want Musk — or anyone — to have control over OpenAI. “You and I can argue that’s stupid all we want but they are holding firm on it,” Zilis says in an email to Jared Birchall in September 2017.

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The big sticking point for Brockman and Sutskever was control.

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