{"id":35419,"date":"2026-05-12T02:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/35419\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:05:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:05:28","slug":"altman-vs-elon-for-the-future-of-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/35419\/","title":{"rendered":"Altman vs. Elon for the future of OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/904727\/openai-chatgpt-investment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ChatGPT<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/3\/1\/24087473\/elon-musk-openai-lawsuit-nonprofit-mission\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2024, Musk filed a lawsuit<\/a> accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is set to appear today, with OpenAI cofounder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever lined up to testify after that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Musk was a cofounder of OpenAI and claims that Altman and Brockman tricked him into giving the company money, only to turn their backs on their original goal. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OpenAINewsroom\/status\/2048776645142872368?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">OpenAI says<\/a> that \u201cThis lawsuit has always been a baseless and jealous bid to derail a competitor\u201d in a bid to boost Musk\u2019s own SpaceX \/ xAI \/ X companies that have launched Grok as a competitor to ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Elon Musk \u2014 plaintiff, OpenAI cofounder and now CEO of rival xAI<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Steven Molo \u2014 lead counsel for plaintiff<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Jared Birchall \u2014 manager of Musk\u2019s family office<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Shivon Zilis \u2014 former OpenAI board member who shares multiple children with Musk<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Sam Altman \u2014 defendant, CEO of OpenAI<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">William Savitt \u2014 lead counsel for defendant<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Greg Brockman \u2014 president of OpenAI as well as a cofounder<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Ilya Sutskever \u2014 former chief scientist at OpenAI and a cofounder<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers \u2014 aka YGR, trial judge<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Here\u2019s all the latest on the trial between Musk and Altman:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[24,140,2594,66,157,2819,781,2899],"class_list":{"0":"post-35419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-law","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-openai","13":"tag-policy","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-xai"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35419","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=35419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}