[loceng]

OpenAI, even the name was his suggestion from what I remember reading, wouldn't exist without him - other investors may not have invested either without his money essentially vouching for the organization, and also its primary AI developer likely wouldn't have joined the OpenAI either if it wasn't for AI; who I believe is the one who recently announced they're leaving OpenAI, and I'd speculate they're joining Elon's new AI effort.

[HarHarVeryFunny]

Hard to say. Certainly his name would have been a draw, but you've also got Altman, head of YC as a founder, not to mention his buddy Peter Thiel.

Musk's influence in attracting/retaining talent is rather a mixed bag given that he poached Karpathy for Tesla around the same time he left.

I think the person you're thinking of who Musk helped recruit for OpenAI is Ilya Sutskever. The person who just left, after a second brief stint at OpenAI, is Karpathy who for time being seems content on going back to his roots as an educator.

[fouc]

OpenAI was formed in 2015, Altman was only president of YC for a year by that point.

[loceng]

Ah yes, thanks for the correction.