{"id":24249,"date":"2026-05-01T10:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/24249\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:34:16","slug":"openai-lawyer-questions-musk-on-starting-xai-as-for-profit-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/24249\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI Lawyer Questions Musk on Starting xAI as For Profit Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/openai-lawyer-questions-musk-on-starting-xai.jpg\" class=\"attachment-tt-discover-hero size-tt-discover-hero wp-post-image\" alt=\"OpenAI Lawyer Questions Musk on Starting xAI as For Profit Company\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\"  data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk started xAI a few years back and it included founding team members from DeepMind and OpenAI. It\u2019s purpose, from the start, has been to seek the truth for humanity, as quoted by Musk in the past. It is not a questionable thing that the company wants to make profits. It is a natural thing and it is required to build a sustainable business.<\/p>\n<p>Make Telecom Talk My Trusted Source<br \/>\n<a class=\"sog_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=telecomtalk.info\"><br \/>\n<img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sog2.jpeg\" alt=\"Source of Google\" width=\"130\" height=\"40\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"sog_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=telecomtalk.info\"><br \/>\n<img data-lazyloaded=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sog1.jpeg\" alt=\"Source of Google\" width=\"130\" height=\"40\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, who is currently in a legal battle against <a href=\"https:\/\/telecomtalk.info\/category\/ai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> and Sam Altman, was questioned by OpenAI\u2019s lawer over this. Musk had sued OpenAI because the company steered its operations from a non-profit to a for-profit company. On this, William Savitt, OpenAI\u2019s lead attorney questioned Musk over why he didn\u2019t start xAI as a non-profit as well?<\/p>\n<p>Musk, visibly rattled (according to a report from The Guardian), said in a stern voice, \u201cI started OpenAI as a non-profit. That is the entire basis for this whole lawsuit. Why would I start another non-profit when I already started a non-profit?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was a rapid fire exchange between Elon Musk and Savitt over what Musk knew about the OpenAI\u2019s structure and forming for a for-profit branch within the company. At one point in this exchange, Musk said, \u201cyou can\u2019t just steal a charity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Non-Profit Should Have Existed Within OpenAI<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk\u2019s lawyer, Steven Molo, redirected the questions from Savitt and asked Musk to reaffirm a point he had made earling: that he was fine with OpenAI being a for-profit entity, as long as the non-profit division also existed.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting that Musk had contributed millions of dollars to fund OpenAI when it was being formed in 2015. Sam Altman was one of the persons in the founding team. Altman now leads OpenAI and has turned the company into a completely for profit venture, raising billions of dollars in private equity where Altman set aside stocks worth billions for himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tt-support-text\">Found this useful? 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