Elon Musk’s years-long feud with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has moved from social media to a federal courtroom in California, where a jury will weigh Musk’s claim that Altman and OpenAI abandoned the lab’s nonprofit mission in favor of profit, benefiting partners such as Microsoft. Musk is seeking billions in alleged wrongful gains to be funneled to OpenAI’s nonprofit arm and is pressing for leadership changes at the maker of ChatGPT; OpenAI counters that Musk’s suit is motivated by rivalry and regret as he builds his own AI startup, xAI. Presided over by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the case is set to feature testimony from high-profile tech figures and could influence how AI ventures structure governance as they straddle nonprofit ideals and for‑profit capital needs. Whatever the outcome, the proceedings spotlight the escalating corporate stakes in the race toward artificial general intelligence.
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