Ilya Sutskever Reveals $7 Billion OpenAI Stake During Musk Trial
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Updated · Bloomberg · May 11
Ilya Sutskever Reveals $7 Billion OpenAI Stake During Musk Trial
10 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 11
$7 billion is the approximate value Ilya Sutskever put on his OpenAI stake, a disclosure he made Monday while testifying in Elon Musk’s case against the company.
Sutskever gave the figure in response to a question from Musk’s attorney, turning his courtroom appearance into a rare public look at ownership inside the ChatGPT maker.
The valuation makes the OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist one of the startup’s largest individual shareholders, underscoring the scale of wealth tied to the company’s rise.
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