Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI will face a jury in March
A U.S. judge has allowed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI to proceed to a jury trial in March.Summary
Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, will proceed to a jury trial scheduled for March after a U.S. judge found evidence supporting the billionaire's claims. Musk sued in 2024, alleging the defendants betrayed OpenAI's founding mission as a nonprofit—to develop AI for humanity—by pursuing profits. Musk, an early funder and co-founder who left in 2018, has been a vocal critic of OpenAI's shift to a for-profit model, which began in 2019 with a capped-profit subsidiary. Musk is seeking monetary damages for the approximately $38 million he invested based on assurances that OpenAI would remain a nonprofit. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers scheduled the trial based on evidence suggesting OpenAI leaders made assurances regarding the maintenance of the original nonprofit structure.
(Source：TechCrunch)