Tesla CEO Musk, other tech titans back non-profit artificial intelligence startup, OpenAI, with $1b funding

Tesla CEO Musk, other tech titans back non-profit artificial intelligence startup, OpenAI, with $1b funding

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a Tesla event in Palo Alto, California October 14, 2015. REUTERS/Beck Diefenbach

Tesla Motors Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives are pouring $1 billion into a non-profit aimed at creating artificial intelligence that augments humans’ capabilities, rather than making them obsolete.

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