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377 Elon Musk once backed a $10 billion OpenAI ICO, internal notes show

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Shaurya Malwa @ CoinDesk · today 01:35 EDT

Elon Musk once backed a $10 billion OpenAI ICO, internal notes show

Internal OpenAI call notes show Elon Musk agreed to explore an ICO with a for-profit arm in early 2018, but later dropped the idea and exited the organization.

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