Elon Musk was one of the co-founders of OpenAI in 2015 when the company started as a nonprofit.

OpenAI was founded in 2015.

Ilia Sutskever and Greg Brockman initially chose Elon Musk to be the CEO of OpenAI's for-profit entity.

In May 2015, Sam Altman emailed Elon Musk stating, "I think we need a Manhattan Project for AI."

Elon Musk had a falling out with Sam Altman because Musk felt Altman had abandoned OpenAI's altruistic goals for profit.

Elon Musk claims OpenAI stole an open-source charity and transformed it into a closed-source money printer.