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Sam Altman texts Shivon Zilis
February 9, 2023
Sam Altman
BTW, good idea for me to tweet something nice about Elon? Have been meaning to do this after he DMd about not being in the photo from the first day of OpenAI. Just about how much I and others look up to him, how critical his early contributions to OpenAI are, etc.
[This document is from Musk v. Altman (2025).]
Further reading: Sam Altman's tweet: “society underestimates how much it owes elon for raising the collective ambition level at a time when optimism for the future was receding” (February 13, 2023)
Sam Altman emails Elon Musk
On Oct 18, 2015, at 11:36 AM, Sam Altman wrote:
Good seeing you a couple of weeks ago.
