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‘Craziest talent war I’ve ever seen’: Elon Musk says AI is hitting a new frenzy—and he helped set it off 9 years ago with Larry Page and Sam Altman
FortuneIn 2015, Musk stole one of Google founder Larry Page’s best AI minds: Ilya Sutskever, the man who would one day lead a failed coup against Sam Altman.