š„ MUSK VS. ALTMAN AI BATTLE HEADS TO COURT TODAY
Elon Musk's $134 BILLION lawsuit against OpenAI officially heads to trial TODAY in Oakland.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit, claims the company abandoned that mission when it shifted toward a for-profit structure after he left in 2018.
āMusk and the non-profitās namesake objective were betrayed by Altman and his accomplices,ā Muskās original complaint said.
Musk is now seeking to:
- Revert OpenAI back to nonprofit control.
- Remove CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman
- Pursue up to $134B in damages (directed to the nonprofit, not himself)
The evidence includes hundreds of pages of emails, texts, and personal journals from the biggest names in tech.
Among the most damaging is Brockman's 2017 journal, where he wrote it would be "morally bankrupt" to convert OpenAI to a for-profit without Musk.
OpenAI counters that Musk pushed for a for-profit model himself, wanted control, left when he didnāt get it, and is now acting out of competition with his own firm, xAI.
Prediction markets give Musk a ~36% chance of winning.
If he does, OpenAI's planned Q4 2026 IPO, potentially the largest in history, could collapse overnight.
A verdict is expected by May 12th.
This is the biggest tech trial of the decade.