I was very surprised by this as well. From the article: "The person familiar with OpenAI’s departure said the company’s rent had not been covered by a typical lease, but rather a less formal agreement paid for by Musk, the billionaire who also controls automaker Tesla and social media firm X."
Surprising OpenAI and Microsoft were OK with this after a $13B investment.
> Surprising OpenAI and Microsoft were OK with this
I’d give it a 50/50 that the Microsoft deal team is learning about this now.
I guess their due diligence was less than stellar in that case?
Unknown unknowns
Musk was renting the space and it seems had a contract with OpenAI allowing it to use it at no cost. Neuralink had also been headquartered there.
Probably earmarked from his initial $100m seed money