Deep Tide TechFlow News, January 17th, according to CoinDesk, in the internal call records recently released by OpenAI, Elon Musk briefly supported OpenAI's plan in early 2018 to raise approximately $10 billion through an initial coin offering (ICO), but then abandoned the idea and eventually left the project. These records show that during the 2017-2018 cryptocurrency boom, the founders of OpenAI seriously considered creating a tokenized profit-generating division to support its non-profit mission. Musk later believed that the organization could not raise enough funds and shifted focus to Tesla's artificial intelligence work.