{"id":15120,"date":"2025-08-22T01:21:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15120\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T01:21:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:21:06","slug":"openai-lawyers-question-metas-role-in-elon-musks-97b-takeover-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15120\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI lawyers question Meta&#8217;s role in Elon Musk&#8217;s $97B takeover bid\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI is asking Meta to produce evidence related to any coordinated plans with Elon Musk and xAI to acquire or invest in the ChatGPT-maker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The request was made public in a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.433688\/gov.uscourts.cand.433688.230.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">brief<\/a> filed Thursday in Elon Musk\u2019s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI. Lawyers representing OpenAI said they subpoenaed Meta in June for documents related to its potential involvement in Musk\u2019s unsolicited, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/10\/elon-musk-led-team-submits-97-4b-bid-for-openai\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$97 billion bid<\/a> to takeover the startup in February. It\u2019s unclear from the filing whether such evidence exists. OpenAI ultimately denied Musk\u2019s bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI\u2019s lawyers say they discovered that Musk communicated with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg concerning xAI\u2019s bid to purchase the ChatGPT-maker, including \u201cabout potential financing arrangements or investments.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta objected to OpenAI\u2019s initial subpoena in July; the ChatGPT-maker\u2019s lawyers are now seeking a court order to obtain such evidence. OpenAI is also asking the court for any of Meta\u2019s documents and communications related to \u201cany actual or potential restructuring or recapitalization of OpenAI\u201d \u2014 the core issue in Musk\u2019s lawsuit against OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meta spokesperson Andy Stone directed TechCrunch towards a section of OpenAI\u2019s filing which states that neither Meta nor Zuckerberg signed Musk\u2019s letter of intent to acquire the ChatGPT-maker. Meta declined to comment further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the background of OpenAI\u2019s fight with Elon Musk, Meta has significantly invested in its own efforts to develop frontier AI models. That effort has included poaching several of OpenAI\u2019s leading AI researchers, including a co-creator of ChatGPT,<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/07\/25\/meta-names-shengjia-zhao-as-chief-scientist-of-ai-superintelligence-unit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Shengjia Zhao<\/a>, who now leads research efforts at Meta Superintelligence Labs, the company\u2019s newest AI unit. Meta also invested $14 billion in Scale AI, and reportedly approached several other AI labs about acquisition deals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lawyers representing Meta asked the court to reject OpenAI\u2019s request for evidence, arguing that Musk and xAI can provide any relevant information. Meta also argues that its internal discussions of OpenAI\u2019s restructuring and recapitalization are not relevant to the case.<\/p>\n<p>Techcrunch event<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 27-29, 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a developing story\u2026 Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI is asking Meta to produce evidence related to any coordinated plans with Elon Musk and xAI to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,17,11257,307,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-15120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-musk","15":"tag-openai","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}