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Greg Brockman is explaining that Musk put conditions on his continuing donations at OpenAI, which he did not accept. Then Musk said they should merge OAI into Tesla. They’d get the money, a billion dollar per year budget, and it’d grow from there. The work would have to be secret — that would be a requirement to make it happen.

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