The Fear That Inspired Elon Musk and Sam Altman to Create OpenAI

Emails released by OpenAI to refute a lawsuit from Elon Musk show how he, Sam Altman, and other cofounders were motivated by fears of Google's dominance.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-fear-that-inspired-elon-musk-sam-altman-openai/