{"id":14267,"date":"2026-04-27T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=14267"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:15:40","slug":"130553142-cms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/?p=14267","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk vs Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI: The courtroom battle begins &#8211; The Times of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-130553210,imgsize-58694,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/elon-musk-vs-sam-altman.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk vs Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI: The courtroom battle begins\" title=\"AI-generated image for representational purpose\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"AI-generated image for representational purpose\">AI-generated image for representational purpose<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>One of the most anticipated legal battles in the history of Silicon Valley is now officially underway. On one side is <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/elon-musk\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Elon Musk<\/a>, the richest man on Earth, and is owner of X (formerly Twitter), CEO of Tesla, xAI and SpaceX, among other companies. On the other side is Sam Altman-led <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/openai\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">OpenAI<\/a>. At the centre of the lawsuit is a single, deeply contested question: did OpenAI betray the promise it was built on? Here is all you need to know about the case.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Who is the jury<br \/><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Jury selection in the lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against OpenAI and its CEO <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sam-altman\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Sam Altman<\/a> began at the federal courthouse in Oakland, California, with Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers presiding over the proceedings.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"11\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Why Musk has filed case against OpenAI and Sam Atlman<br \/><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Musk&#8217;s argument is straightforward. When OpenAI was founded in 2015, it was established as a nonprofit with a clear and stated mission: to develop artificial intelligence (AI) safely and for the benefit of all of humanity, not for any single company or set of shareholders. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Musk contributed around $38 million to the organisation in its early years, and he says that money was given on the explicit understanding that the technology would remain open-source and serve the public good. Musk now argues that that promise was broken when he left the company after disagreements, and Sam Altman took Microsoft\u2019s money to make the company a for-profit organisation. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Moreover, his lawsuit accuses Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman of deliberately misleading him by using his well-known fears about the existential dangers of AI to win his financial support, at the same time, secretly planning a very different kind of company.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"21\"\/>\u201cElon Musk&#8217;s case against Sam Altman and OpenAI is a textbook tale of altruism versus greed. Altman, in concert with other defendants, intentionally courted and deceived Musk, preying on Musk&#8217;s humanitarian concern about the existential dangers posed by AI,\u201d the lawsuit states.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>OpenAI\u2019s partnership with Microsoft<br \/><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>The specific target of Musk&#8217;s frustration is OpenAI&#8217;s deepening partnership with Microsoft, which has invested around $13 billion in the company and holds exclusive rights to integrate OpenAI&#8217;s technology into its products. <!-- -->Musk says that this deal transformed OpenAI from a public-interest research organisation into a profit-driven enterprise.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"28\"\/>Musk is seeking approximately $134 billion in compensation, along with the removal of Sam Altman as CEO. Musk has said he does not want the money for himself, saying that he has asked any awarded amount be directed to OpenAI\u2019s nonprofit arm rather than to him personally.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"30\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>OpenAI fires back<br \/><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has denied every allegation in the lawsuit. The company says it remains fully committed to its founding mission of creating artificial general intelligence (AGI) that benefits humanity, and that its commercial partnerships, including the one with Microsoft. <!-- -->OpenAI argues that building and running the world&#8217;s most advanced AI systems is expensive.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"35\"\/>OpenAI has also attacked Musk, alleging that Musk did not leave the company out of principle, he left because he did not get what he wanted. According to OpenAI, Musk demanded full control of the organisation back in 2018, and when co-founders Altman, Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever refused to hand it to him, he walked away.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"37\"\/>In a blog post, OpenAI went further, claiming that Musk had at one point wanted to merge OpenAI into Tesla. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"40\"\/>\u201cWhen we wouldn&#8217;t agree to his terms, he walked away and told us we had a &#8216;0% chance&#8217; of success. He turned out to be wrong, though, and a resentful Elon has attacked OpenAI ever since,\u201d the post reads.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"42\"\/>\u201cElon donated $38 million to the OpenAI nonprofit, which was spent exactly as intended and in service of the mission. Despite claiming and receiving a tax deduction for this donation, he&#8217;s now asking the court to treat it as an investment that entitles him to significant ownership of OpenAI,\u201d the blog post states.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"44\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/technology\/tech-news\/elon-musk-vs-sam-altmans-openai-the-courtroom-battle-begins\/articleshow\/130553142.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI-generated image for representational purpose One of the most anticipated legal battles in the history&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33648,2220,33649,1548,1542],"class_list":["post-14267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ai-lawsuit","tag-elon-musk","tag-microsoft-investment","tag-openai","tag-sam-altman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/d.sheep-mine.ts.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}