In 2015, Sam Altman described OpenAI as a "company" sitting next to Elon Musk. Elon corrected him on the spot: "OpenAI is structured as a 501(c)3 nonprofit." So: a nonprofit, not a company, set up precisely so nobody would profit from it. Sam nodded along. He then ran it for the next ten years. Then turned OpenAI into a for-profit business worth $300 billion. With shareholders. With investors who expect a return. What Elon said in that interview wasn't a minor wording fix. It was the whole reason OpenAI existed. The nonprofit setup wasn't a legal detail. It was the promise. It was what set OpenAI apart from every other lab chasing money. Sam understood that in 2015. His co-founder corrected him live. He altered the structure regardless. The interview is out there. That correction is on tape. The conversion went through. Elon is now in court making exactly this argument. And the 2015 interview is the evidence. Interested in AI? Follow @SiliconValleyPX and never fall behind. I track ChatGPT, Claude, and how every new agent is changing how we work and think, then hand you the pure signals.