Musk, who cofounded OpenAI with Altman more than a decade ago, said he blasted the move in the text as a “bait-and-switch.”<\/p>\n
The Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the comments during his second day on the witness stand in his blockbuster civil trial<\/a> over OpenAI’s for-profit transition from a nonprofit research lab. He is seeking to convince the jury that the defendants, including Microsoft, were “unjustly enriched to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars.”<\/p>\n “Microsoft would only put $10 billion \u2014 which is a huge sum of money \u2014 into something if they feel like they will get a return,” Musk said in explaining why he was so mad about the investment. Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, was in the courtroom during Musk’s testimony.<\/p>\n Musk, while under direct questioning by his lead trial attorney, Steven Molo, said he was concerned that Microsoft would effectively be in control of AGI, or artificial general intelligence<\/a>, that was “started by a charity.”<\/p>\n “Microsoft would have motivations that are different from a charity,” Musk added.<\/p>\n The investment was Microsoft’s second in OpenAI. Microsoft first invested $1 billion in 2019.<\/p>\n When asked why Musk didn’t file any lawsuits in 2019, he said that he understood the situation as one with a capped profit. Musk, who left OpenAI in 2018, said he believed that Microsoft had “agreed to be involved in a cap profit way.”<\/p>\n