Musk and Altman and Brockman had no choice but to delay their announcement while they waited for Sutskever to decide. He phoned his parents back in Toronto, and as he continued to weigh the pros and cons, Brockman sent text after text urging him to choose OpenAI. This went on for days. Finally, on Friday, the last day of the conference, Brockman and the others decided they needed to announce the lab with or without him. The announcement was set for three p.m., and that time came and went, without an announcement and without a decision from Sutskever. Then he texted Brockman to say he was in.
