Overview
- Altman posted screenshots showing a 2018 $45,000 Tesla Roadster reservation and a cancellation email seeking a $50,000 refund that bounced.
- Musk replied on X with “You stole a non-profit” and claimed the refund was issued within 24 hours, a point not independently confirmed in the reports.
- Altman countered that he helped build what should be the largest nonprofit and said OpenAI’s current structure is necessary, adding that Musk once pushed for a Tesla takeover of OpenAI and predicted its failure.
- OpenAI completed an October restructuring that established the OpenAI Foundation with oversight of its for-profit arm, OpenAI Group PBC, according to the company.
- Tesla’s next-gen Roadster remains listed as in “design development” as Musk has recently teased a prototype featuring “crazy technology.”