# OpenAI — Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2024-12-13T00:00:00+00:00
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API
- Source: https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit
- Record: https://forck.live/items/658-elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit

OpenAI responds to Elon Musk's latest legal filing, noting that in 2017 Musk himself wanted and created a for-profit structure for OpenAI.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/elon-musk-wanted-an-openai-for-profit:

> in 2017, Elon not only wanted, but actually created, a for-profit as OpenAI’s proposed new structure.

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