Sam Altman once told Elon Musk he worried Google Deepmind was trying to 'kill it' before it launched by poaching top talent

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• Elon Musk's emails, revealed in court documents, describe OpenAI's talent wars in its early days.
• OpenAI increased salaries to compete with Google DeepMind's counteroffers and attract top talent.
• "Either we get the best people in the world or we will get whipped by Deepmind," Musk wrote.

Elon Musk's email exchanges, newly revealed in his lawsuit against OpenAI's cofounders, have become a window into...