US EditionBillionaire Elon Musk Enters Courtroom Showdown with OpenAI
Musk seeks up to $134 billion and says OpenAI broke a promise to stay nonprofit as Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to testify.
- Jury selection begins Monday in federal court in Oakland for Musk v. Altman, pitting billionaire Elon Musk against OpenAI, the artificial intelligence startup he once backed and now accuses of abandoning its nonprofit mission.
- Sam Altman, OpenAI chief executive, convinced Musk to back the nonprofit lab in 2015, claiming its technology "would belong to the world." Tensions escalated as OpenAI established a commercial subsidiary and Musk threatened to cut off funding.
- OpenAI is now valued at $852 billion with Microsoft as a major backer, while Musk seeks as much as $134 billion in damages. Musk pumped $38 million into the lab before leaving in 2018.
- Musk urges the court to force OpenAI to sever ties with Microsoft and oust Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, OpenAI co-founder and president. OpenAI counters the lawsuit is a "harassment campaign" driven by ego and jealousy.
- Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers aims for a jury to decide by late May whether OpenAI broke its founding promises. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is expected to testify during the trial, which may extend into late May.
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An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on April 27, accusing him of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: An overview of Elon Musk's $134B lawsuit against Sam Altman, scheduled to begin on April 27, accusing him of reneging on a vow to keep OpenAI nonprofit — A yearslong legal brawl between Elon Musk, the world's richest man, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman heads to court in Northern…
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Billionaire Elon Musk enters courtroom showdown with OpenAI
Jury selection is to begin Monday in a high-profile legal battle between billionaire Elon Musk and artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, which he accuses of betraying its non-profit mission.
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