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Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to Infamous, a production of Sony Music Entertainment and Campside Media.

So you may have seen that the company behind ChatGBT, GBT and its co-founder, Sam Altman, were being sued by Elon Musk

in a $150 billion, yes I said billion dollar lawsuit, with Elon Musk accusing Sam Altman

of basically stealing the company and using it to enrich himself, which is in some ways very rich

from Elon Musk, who is within, I guess,

some striking distance of becoming the world's first trillionaire or he wishes he was.

But last week, a federal jury rejected Elon Musk's lawsuit, saying that Musk waited too long

to file it, which was true. He was way not in the statute of limitations,

but he figured he'd go for it anyway. Musk then dismissed this decision as a, quote,

calendar technicality in a post on X, and his lawyer vowed to appeal. In any case, assuming he loses

the appeal, which he probably will, the end of this lawsuit

means that Elon Musk has failed to stop the rise of the company named OpenAI, and that is the

company that makes ChatGBT.

And it is a company that he actually helped create back in 2015.

So OpenAI's origin story, which is what we're talking about today, is pretty confusing.

It's worth billions and billions of dollars now as one of the leaders in the AI space,

but it was actually formed as a non-profit.

The idea was that the technology was so crazy that to make a for-profit company around

it would lead to corruption. And yet, since Chad GPT's release in 2022, and especially in the last

year, Sam Altman has been more and more in the public eye, and he's arguably become more and more

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