All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s battle over OpenAI
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead.Musk was a cofounder of OpenAI and claims that Altman and Brockman tricked him into giving the company money, only to turn their backs on their original goal. However, OpenAI claimed that “This lawsuit has always been a baseless and jealous bid to derail a competitor” in a bid to boost Musk’s own SpaceX / xAI / X companies that have launched Grok as a competitor to ChatGPT.Elon Musk — plaintiff, OpenAI cofounder and now CEO of rival xAISteven Molo — lead counsel for the plaintiffJared Birchall — manager of Musk’s family officeShivon Zilis — former OpenAI board member who shares multiple children with MuskSam Altman — defendant, CEO of OpenAIWilliam Savitt — lead counsel for the defendantGreg Brockman — president of OpenAI as well as a cofounderIlya Sutskever — former chief scientist at OpenAI and a cofounderYvonne Gonzalez Rogers — aka YGR, trial judgeHere’s all the latest on the trial between Musk and Altman:
