OpenAI 成立内幕首次曝光：Musk 想命名"Freemind"，高管曾担忧他会成为 AGI 独裁者
Musk 诉 Altman 案庭审进入第二周，大量从未公开的早期邮件和内部文件被呈堂。证据揭示了一个与后来叙事截然不同的起点：Musk 曾想将公司命名为"Freemind"，高管们曾联名警告他可能成为"AGI 独裁者"，而 Musk 本人在2017年就写道"非营利结构也许是个错误"。这场庭审不仅是关于谁背叛了谁，更是关于 AI 控制权从一开始就存在的深层矛盾。
一、Musk 原本想命名"Freemind"
2015年，Musk 在邮件中解释了他对实验室命名的想法：
"Freemind conveys the sense that we are trying to create digital intelligence that will be freely available to all — the opposite of Deepmind's one-ring-to-rule-them-all approach."
Altman 则建议用 "Axon" 或与计算机科学家 Alan Turing 相关的名字。Musk 回应：
"Something Turing-related that doesn't sound too ominous might be good. Want to avoid the Turing Test association though, as that sounds too much like we are replacing humans."
最终他们选择了 OpenAI。
二、Brockman 和 Sutskever 担忧 Musk 的控制欲
2017年9月，Brockman 和 Sutskever 给 Musk 写了一封联名信，表达了他们最深的担忧：
"The current structure provides you with a path where you end up with unilateral absolute control over the AGI... You stated that you don't want to control the final AGI, but during this negotiation, you've shown to us that absolute control is extremely important to you."
他们还提到：
"The goal of OpenAI is to make the future good and to avoid an AGI dictatorship. You are concerned that Demis could create an AGI dictatorship. So do we. So it is a bad idea to create a structure where you could become a dictator if you chose to."
Musk 的回应出人意料地平淡：
"This is very annoying. Please encourage them to go start a company. I've had enough."
三、最初的股权结构：Musk 占 51.20%
2017年9月的一份文件显示，OpenAI 最初的股权分配为：
| 人物 | 股权比例 |
|---|---|
| Elon Musk | 51.20% |
| Sam Altman | 11.01% |
| Ilya Sutskever | 11.01% |
| Greg Brockman | 11.01% |
| 员工期权池 | 剩余部分 |
Musk 对此 Cap Table 表示不满：
"Guys, you are pushing too hard here. I'm not ok with this."
四、Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang 赠予 OpenAI 首台超算
2016年4月，Musk 给 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang 发邮件，请求购买一台早期超算。Musk 特别强调：
"OpenAI is unaffiliated with Tesla. It is a non-profit funded by me and a few others with the goal of developing safe AGI (and hopefully not paving the road to hell with good intentions)."
Huang 回应："I will make sure OpenAI gets one of the first ones."
一张照片记录了 Huang 亲自送货的场景，Musk 站在旁边，身后墙上是一段 Admiral Hyman G. Rickover 的名言。
五、Musk 送特斯拉 Model 3 给 OpenAI 员工
2017年7月，作为感谢 OpenAI 团队工作的"特殊奖励"，Musk 提出送给 Sutskever、Brockman 等人不对公众发售的特斯拉 Model 3。
Musk 当时写道：
"The OpenAI guys are gonna want to kill me, but it had to be done..."
他挖来了 Andrej Karpathy 担任特斯拉 Vision 总监，尽管承认这会激怒 OpenAI 团队。
六、Musk 的 AI 担忧：Google 是最大敌人
2016年12月，Musk 在给 Neuralink 团队的邮件中写道：
"Deepmind is moving very fast. I am concerned that OpenAI is not on a path to catch up. Setting it up as a non-profit might, in hindsight, have been the wrong move. Sense of urgency is not as high."
Musk 认为中国"会不惜一切代价获取我们研发的任何技术"，并建议 OpenAI 考虑更激进的商业化路径。
七、庭审金句：Musk 不了解"Terminator 剧情"
在庭审中，Musk 被问到关于 AI 机器人军队的问题。法官要求他用一句话总结《终结者》剧情：
"Worst case situation is AI kills us all I suppose."
他澄清 xAI 不是武器公司，"如果制造大量机器人，我们需要确保它们安全，不会变成《终结者》里那种情况。"
八、Musk 的矛盾：批评 OpenAI 却称其为"非营利"
面对"你为何起诉一个非营利组织"的质疑，Musk 回应：
"Well, I thought I had started a nonprofit with OpenAI, but they stole the charity."
九、Gabe Newell 试图为小岛秀夫牵线 OpenAI
庭审中还曝光了一个有趣的细节：Valve 联合创始人 Gabe Newell 曾与 Musk 邮件往来，讨论为游戏制作人小岛秀夫（Hideo Kojima）安排 SpaceX 参观和 OpenAI 会面。Musk 在邮件中写道，他对 OpenAI 的参与"目前非常有限"，并表示他已对赶超 Google/Deepmind 失去信心，转而希望通过特斯拉实现这一目标。
十、2020年：Musk 停止捐赠
庭审文件显示，Musk 于 2020 年停止对 OpenAI 的资金捐赠。他通过邮件解释：
"This was ready to go out when I was told that Elon informed Greg and Ilya that the funding would be on pause until they came to terms on the right path moving forward."
这直接导致了他与 OpenAI 关于公司控制权的谈判破裂。