OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Elon Musk
Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
  • Elon Musk tried to incorporate OpenAI into Tesla before he left the AI firm, his biographer said.
  • An excerpt from an upcoming biography that was published in Time detailed the incident.
  • Tesla had been ramping up AI development at the time, the excerpt said. 

Elon Musk attempted to incorporate OpenAI into Tesla before he parted ways with the company in 2018, an excerpt of a biography about the billionaire said.

The excerpt, which was published in Time, said Musk tried to convince Sam Altman, who later became OpenAI's CEO, to fold the AI lab into Tesla before Musk stepped down from the company.