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@staysaasy
There was a lot of ketamine and journaling you’re missing
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@jarvis_bestposted on X
I haven’t followed this super closely but I get the general outline: 1. OpenAI is like WE’RE A NONPROFIT give us money and we’ll do AI research 2. Elon likes AI research so he gives them a bunch of money. 3. OpenAI is like lmao we’re for profit now so you just funded our startup for free with no equity hahahaha I could be missing some nuance but that’s the gist of it.
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Community Sentiment Analysis
Real-time analysis of public opinion and engagement
Sentiment Distribution
62% Engaged
54% Positive
Positive
54%
Negative
8%
Neutral
38%
Key Takeaways
What the community is saying — both sides
Supporting
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Elon pushed to fold the non‑profit into Tesla and convert to for‑profit
; reports say OpenAI declined, kept the non‑profit and spun out a for‑profit arm — the non‑profit is now one of the best‑funded charities in the space.
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“one weird trick”
style growth/structure play that looks clever if cynical.
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profiting from a conversion
; any lawful conversion should require transferring equivalent value to another nonprofit, and OpenAI’s touted valuation makes that requirement practically significant.
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helped found and fund
OpenAI and recruited key hires, which colors claims about entitlement and standing.
5
personal beef
between Elon and Sam Altman, suggesting the conflict turned legal primarily because of interpersonal fallout.
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prevented risky or misaligned uses
of funds or research.
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contracts and corporate law complicate any easy victory
; practical enforcement and litigation are messy.
Opposing
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Elon as the recruiting magnet
many replies credit Elon for drawing the “critical initial talent” to OpenAI and say his network was decisive in jump-starting the project.
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Jensen/NVIDIA hardware was the real accelerator
several voices argue the hand-delivered supercomputer — and NVIDIA’s tech — mattered far more than any single founder for early breakthroughs.
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Success was a team effort
others push back on founder-focused narratives, insisting OpenAI’s researchers, engineers, funders and leaders like Sam Altman deserve primary credit.
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“Hand-delivered” sounds like PR
skeptics call the phrasing hyperbolic, noting a photo or anecdote doesn’t prove causation and cautioning against myth-making.
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Snark about culture: “ketamine and journaling”
some replies mock startup lore and emphasize the tweet’s aside as a sarcastic take on Silicon Valley rituals.
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Concern about concentrated power
a strand of replies worries the tight relationships between big names and big tech vendors reflect unhealthy influence and raise governance questions.
Top Reactions
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@libertylampoon
e impression Jarvis is a lawyer, but maybe that's a front. At any rate, Jarvis the lawyer (if he is aware of non-profit law (NP)) would understand that NP laws do not allow for any officer or director of the NP to inure themselves from the NP. Altman and the others running Open
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@AskNotALawyer
Truly the greatest "one weird trick" in the history of startups
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@Jevaughn_Brown
also a magnet to recruit the critical initial talent that helped OpenAI takeoff. Elon's connection with Jensen Huang is what made it so that Jensen *hand delivered" the first Nvidia AI supercomputer to OpenAI that accelerated their early research. A photo of the moment below
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@imherefortheoil
Step zero is Elon founded OpenAI and was instrumental in initial funding and hiring
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