"OpenAI Investment: Elon Musk's $100M Claim Debunked with Evidence Showing $50M Contribution"

Elon Musk has been critical of OpenAI since stepping down from its board in 2018, calling for the organization to pause work on more powerful systems. Musk has claimed to have donated $100 million to OpenAI, but an investigation by TechCrunch shows that he likely donated around $57.4 million. The majority of OpenAI's funding remains unclear, but tax filings reveal previously unreported details about the organization's funding, including the level of investment by Reid Hoffman, free Teslas for early OpenAI engineers, and the sky-rocketing computing bill that may have prompted it to take a $1 billion investment from Microsoft.