Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

A striking development has emerged in artificial intelligence. 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. The trial began with jury selection on April 27th, before Elon Musk took the stand on Tuesday as the first witness called, portraying his interest in founding OpenAI as an effort to help save humanity .

Musk was a cofounder of OpenAI and claims that Altman and cofounder Greg Brockman tricked him into giving the company money, only to turn their backs on their original goal. However, OpenAI says 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. In his lawsuit, Musk is asking for the removal of Altman and Brockman , and for OpenAI to stop operating as a public benefit corporation.

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Musk has also demanded that OpenAI’s nonprofit receive up to $150 billion in damages he’s asking for if he wins the case. Here’s all the latest on the trial between Musk and Altman: Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared That’s a wrap! YGR scolds OpenAI for taking inconsistent positions on the origin of its name.

Elon Musk tells the jury that all he wants to do is save humanity Arguments over ownership. Apparently OpenAI could have had an ICO. “I was not averse to a small for-profit,” Musk says.

We’re reading emails between Musk and Jensen Huang. Musk says nonprofit was non-negotiable for OpenAI. We’re at the founding of OpenAI.

Industry Implications

Musk says he would have created something like OpenAI on his own. Musk recalls meeting Sam Altman. Sam Altman left during a break, but Elon Musk’s lawyer didn’t notice.

“Here we are in 2026 and AI is scary smart. ” “I have extreme concerns about AI,” says Musk. AI will be as smart as ‘any human as soon as next year.

’ Musk claims he has time for SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink, and the Boring Company because he works a lot. Musk is telling the jury he (co)founded Tesla. Neuralink’s long-term goal is… AI?

This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.