# Elon Musk Wanted OpenAI to Be For-Profit in 2017, Company Says

OpenAI has pushed back against Elon Musk's latest legal filing, revealing that the Tesla CEO originally advocated for the very corporate structure he now criticizes.

In a statement posted to their official account, OpenAI claims this is Musk's fourth legal attempt against the company in under a year. The key revelation: in 2017, Musk himself wanted OpenAI to become a for-profit organization and even created such a structure.

This directly contradicts Musk's current legal position. The billionaire entrepreneur co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit focused on developing safe artificial intelligence. He left the board in 2018, citing potential conflicts with Tesla's AI work.

Musk has recently criticized OpenAI's transformation from nonprofit to a capped-profit