Musk and Altman together created OpenAI with others in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab with the goal of benefiting humanity without being beholden to shareholders.<\/p>\n
Musk left the company in 2018 and now accuses it of betraying its initial nonprofit status, The New York Times<\/a> reported.\n<\/p>\n OpenAI said its founders determined it would need to attract investors if the company wanted be able to afford the computing power and other resources to be a world-class leader in AI. Lawyers for OpenAI say Musk, himself, wanted to commercialize the company and control it, but lost out to Altman.<\/p>\n OpenAI has a $730 billion valuation, while Musk’s xAI lab, which was bought by his company SpaceX<\/a>, has a $250 billion valuation.\n<\/p>\n Musk is seeking $150 billion in damages, accusing Altman of duping him. He’s also requesting the removal of Altman and fellow co-founder Greg Brockman from their roles and a return to OpenAI’s nonprofit status.<\/p>\n Tech journalist Casey Newton told NPR the trial will be “a clash of two enormous personalities.”<\/p>\n “And I think what is at stake is potentially the future of OpenAI and the future development of AI.”<\/p>\n \t\t\t \t\t President Donald Trump speaks during a Health Care Affordability event in the Oval Office at the White House on Thursday. Trump announced announced a new drug price deal <\/a>with Regeneron. Photo by Will Oliver\/UPI | License Photo<\/a>\t\t \t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 27 (UPI) — The trial in Elon Musk’s lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s for-profit status is set to begin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[309,13432,658,134,1829,1129,2899],"class_list":{"0":"post-18715","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-xai","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-law-and-crime","10":"tag-spacex","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-u-s","14":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18715","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=18715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777076812_401_This-week-in-Washington_1_1.jpg\")
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