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

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

Ilya Sutskever, a top recruit who turned down a $6 million annual offer from Google to join OpenAI, began to feel by 2020-2023 that Sam Altman should not have control over the technology.

Ilia Sutskyver is the co-founder and former chief scientist at OpenAI.

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

OpenAI successfully converted from a nonprofit to a for-profit entity.