Messages between Shivon Zilis and Tesla executives reveal plans in 2017 to start a rival AI lab, potentially led by Altman or Demis Hassabis.
Man every time these old texts leak it’s like “startup group chat drama” but with billion-dollar consequences. 2017 musk trying to poach altman/hassabis for a tesla AI lab feels less like strategy and more like “i need my own openai, yesterday. ”
