{"id":18420,"date":"2026-04-27T13:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/18420\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:40:31","slug":"elon-musks-trial-against-sam-altman-reveals-power-struggle-for-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/18420\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s trial against Sam Altman reveals power struggle for OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bitter legal fight between <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/elon-musk?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a> \u2060and the leadingAIe firm, <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/openai?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">OpenAI<\/a>, led by Sam Altman, may come down \u2060to a few pages in one executive\u2019s personal diary.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThis is the only chance we have to get out from Elon,\u201d wrote Greg Brockman, OpenAI\u2019s president and a co-founder, in the autumn of 2017. \u201cIs he the \u2018glorious leader\u2019 that I would pick?\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Brockman\u2019s diary entry is part of the thousands of pages of internal documents revealed in court since Musk, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, sued the company, its chief executive Altman and Brockman in 2024.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Musk is seeking US$150 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, one of its largest investors, according to a person involved in the case, with proceeds going \u200cto OpenAI\u2019s charitable arm.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Jury selection for the trial is planned for Monday in the Oakland, California, federal court, with opening statements expected on Tuesday. The documents offer a rare window into egos and personalities that have shaped OpenAI as it evolved from a non-profit research lab in Brockman\u2019s flat to a tech giant worth more than US$850 billion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elon Musk (left), one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, sued the company, its chief executive Sam Altman (right) and Greg Brockman, OpenAI\u2019s president and another co-founder, in 2024. Photo: AFP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/9f37c9ca-4f1a-489a-8bdd-2ef135e9cb7c_55a49289.jpg\" title=\"Elon Musk (left), one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, sued the company, its chief executive Sam Altman (right) and Greg Brockman, OpenAI\u2019s president and another co-founder, in 2024. Photo: AFP\"\/>Elon Musk (left), one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, sued the company, its chief executive Sam Altman (right) and Greg Brockman, OpenAI\u2019s president and another co-founder, in 2024. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They also shed light on how the CEOs with the most power to shape generative AI think about the technology. The trial risks complicating OpenAI\u2019s plans for a potential initial public offering by casting doubt on its leadership. A drumbeat of unflattering disclosures could also intensify Americans\u2019 growing pessimism about AI technology more broadly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk \u2060and the leadingAIe firm, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, may come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[982,53,970,580,140,132,2140,13257,320,5976,157,370,2806,13258,658,2899],"class_list":{"0":"post-18420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-altman","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-chatgpt","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-google","14":"tag-greg-brockman","15":"tag-ilya-sutskever","16":"tag-microsoft","17":"tag-oakland","18":"tag-openai","19":"tag-sam-altman","20":"tag-satya-nadella","21":"tag-shivon-zilis","22":"tag-spacex","23":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}