{"id":20200,"date":"2026-04-28T15:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/20200\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T15:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:06:09","slug":"arguments-begin-in-elon-musk-sam-altman-trial-over-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/20200\/","title":{"rendered":"Arguments begin in Elon Musk, Sam Altman trial over OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 28 (UPI) — The trial is underway in California on Tuesday over OpenAI’s status as a for-profit company as Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company faces a nine-person jury.<\/p>\n

Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI, is suing its CEO Sam Altman and president, Greg Brockman, for allegedly reversing course<\/a> on keeping the company nonprofit. Musk seeks to have the company return to its nonprofit status, remove Altman and Brockman and receive $134 billion to be put back into OpenAI’s nonprofit foundation.\n<\/p>\n

OpenAI is set to go public, potentially later this year.<\/p>\n

Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, with an investment of about $44 million in its early years, he says. He left OpenAI in 2018, later creating his own AI company xAI.\n<\/p>\n

A year after Musk left the company, OpenAI started a for-profit subsidiary<\/a>. Last year it became a for-profit public benefit corporation.<\/p>\n

Musk says the change is a betrayal of the company’s original mission and that Altman and Brockman have wrongfully profited from his investment.<\/p>\n

Microsoft is a co-defendant in the case. Musk alleges that Microsoft aided and abetted OpenAI’s breach of charitable trust.\n<\/p>\n

OpenAI alleged in a statement that Musk is “motivated by jealousy, regret for walking away from OpenAI and a desire to derail a competing AI company.” It also alleges that Musk once supported becoming a for-profit company and only left when he was denied total control.<\/p>\n

Musk may testify in the case. A trove of evidence submitted in the case includes emails, texts, call logs and other documents.<\/p>\n

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California is presiding over the case.<\/p>\n

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