Posted on 05/06/2026 3:14:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A former OpenAI board member has explained how her unconventional personal relationship with Elon Musk evolved into having four of his children.
Shivon Zilis testified in a federal courtroom in Oakland, California for hours on Wednesday as part of Musk's lawsuit trying to reverse OpenAI's change to a for-profit company.
The focus of Zilis's appearance was her direct involvement in early talks with Musk around the company becoming a for-profit, but also how she worked for and became involved with Musk as she advised OpenAI.
"I still really wanted to be a mum and Elon made the offer around that time and I accepted," she said, explaining Musk in 2020 had offered to donate sperm.
"He was encouraging everyone around him at that time to have kids and he'd noticed I did not. He offered to make a donation," Zilis said.
Zilis has worked as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley for over 15 years and held executive positions at Musk's car company, Tesla, and his neurotechnology firm Neuralink. She joined OpenAI as an advisor in 2016, not long after it was founded, a position through which she said on Wednesday is how she first met Musk.
Given Zilis's role across Musk's companies and OpenAI, eventually becoming a director at OpenAI from 2020 to 2023, she is an important witness in the trial.
OpenAI lawyers have suggested that she funnelled information about OpenAI to Musk after he in 2018 left the AI company, which he co-founded and made early donations to.
Zilis said she had a "one-off" romance with Musk about a decade ago but was not romantically involved with Musk in 2020, when Musk initially made the offer to father her children.
She explained she had been struggling with certain health issues which had changed her initial...
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Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
There seems to be no point in posting this.
And? Did you accept or not?
Don’t leave us hangin!
The answer is in the first sentence of the article.
https://x.com/i/grok/share/47583da72286466d83ce56b903504c92
Just sayin.'
Don’t females in the animal kingdom gravitate towards the strong males? What’s the difference?
Charity begins at home.
And so it is. If that answer had been a rock, I’d have tripped over it in the doorway!
The late Paul Gauguin did just that in Tahiti. Impregnated a lot of 13 year-olds. Some of those islands in the Marquesas have a majority of the population that shares his bloodline.
50 years after the death of Gauguin, actor Marlon Brando seems poised to begin his own bloodline, along with the women of Tahiti. Mostly what resulted, a couple of offspring, who, while physically attractive, tended to be chronically depressed and jealous of each other.
I love anything Musk related, so I enjoyed it. Glad it was posted.
Leave it to Elon to always have a solution on hand.
“ONE-OF” NOT ONE-OFF
Non-sequitur.
Jews on the brain?
Was this in a bar at closing time? I was a sailor so it stands to reason Ive made offers like this, but I didn’t know Elon was a sailor too. 😛
Would you take a swing at it???
Why is this news? It’s long been a matter of public record that she had four children with him.
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