{"id":58882,"date":"2026-05-06T04:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/58882\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T04:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:21:10","slug":"altman-vs-elon-for-the-future-of-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/58882\/","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. Elon Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/920191\/elon-musk-sam-altman-trial-day-one\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took the stand on April 28th<\/a> as the first witness called, portraying his interest in founding OpenAI <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/920048\/elon-musk-testimony-save-humanity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as an effort to help save humanity<\/a> across three days of testimony, before his financial manager and Neuralink CEO, Jared Birchall, took the stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">On Tuesday, Brockman\u2019s testimony continued, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/7\/7\/23198199\/elon-musk-children-neuralink-open-ai-exec-twins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shivon Zilis<\/a>, a former OpenAI board member who shares four children with Musk, up next. It\u2019s possible that audio of her testimony will not be available on the stream, with lawyers citing threats against her and her children. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is scheduled to appear on Monday, 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":58883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[594,202,3639,50,613,1075,581,2110,4023],"class_list":{"0":"post-58882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sam-altman","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-law","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-openai","13":"tag-policy","14":"tag-sam-altman","15":"tag-tech","16":"tag-xai"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116525720122542357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}