OpenAI says Elon Musk wanted ‘absolute control’ of the company

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images OpenAI has responded to Elon Musk’s lawsuit by saying that he at one point wanted “absolute control” of the company by merging it with Tesla.
In a blog post published on Tuesday, OpenAI said it will move to dismiss “all of Elon’s claims” and offered its own counter-narrative to his account of the company abandoning its original mission as a nonprofit.
“As we discussed a for-profit structure in orde