A video from 2016 is becoming the center of attention when it captures the moment Elon Musk "corrected" Sam Altman about OpenAI's non-profit nature. The transformation into a $300 billion trading empire turned out to be completely contrary to its initial promise

Historical moment of "correction" on television

Back in 2016, just a few months after OpenAI was officially born, in a joint interview between the two founders, Sam Altman at that time accidentally called OpenAI a "company" when discussing the first steps.

Immediately, Elon Musk interjected and firmly corrected himself on the spot: "OpenAI is structured as a non-profit organization." The nature of a non-profit organization is clearly not that of a commercial company. It is set up so that no individual or shareholder can profit from it. At that time, Sam Altman nodded in agreement with that correction.

But history then turned in a completely different direction.

Birth promise and a "turnaround" worth 300 billion USD

Over the next decade, Sam Altman continued to steer the organization, before performing a transformation that shocked the tech world, turning OpenAI from a nonprofit research bastion into a for-profit enterprise with a valuation of up to $300 billion - home to a huge concentration of shareholders and investors hungry for profits.

Looking back at the old video, Elon Musk's correction was not simply a small wording error. That is the entire reason for OpenAI's existence.

The non-profit structure is not a dry legal detail to avoid taxes or circumvent the law, it is an honorable promise. That is the core factor that helps OpenAI stand in a completely different moral position, separate from the money race of other giant monopolies. Sam Altman understood that clearly in 2016, when he frankly corrected the error in front of the camera lens.

Elon Musk's legal battle and the naked reality of Silicon Valley

However, despite the initial promise and the recording that is still preserved today, the transformation to become a commercial company still took place.

Currently, the old interview video and Elon Musk's strong assertion are becoming one of the sharpest pieces of evidence presented in court, when the billionaire conducts a legal lawsuit to expose the betrayal of OpenAI's strategy.

The old documentary ends with the bare reality of Silicon Valley, the initial promises and ideals that can be "forgotten" when the business scale reaches hundreds of billions of dollars./

Thien Minh