In this video, Elon Musk discusses how General Motors (GM) was actually the first car manufacturer to create electric vehicles for mass production back in the 1990s. However, GM made a huge mistake when they recalled every single EV1 vehicle, even from owners that wanted to keep theirs, and destroyed all of them by crushing them in a junkyard. This decision ultimately allowed Elon's company Tesla to prosper, as there was no other major electric vehicle manufacturer on the market at the time. Musk believes that if GM had kept making electric vehicles, there would be no need for Tesla at all today, which ultimately led Elon Musk to create Tesla Artificial Intelligence which also led to his involvement with OpenAI.
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