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

Internal records show that OpenAI founders had private doubts about the non-profit structure as early as 2017.

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.