OpenAI Wins Lawsuit Against Elon Musk

A federal jury has ruled that Tesla CEO Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its co-founders.

The decision was reached on Monday after a three-week trial in a federal court in Oakland, California. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers presided over the case.

Musk had accused OpenAI and its executives, including CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, of abandoning the company’s original nonprofit mission and turning it into a profit-driven business. He argued that his $38 million donation to OpenAI was meant to support research that would benefit humanity, not commercial expansion.

OpenAI Wins Lawsuit Against Elon Musk (NewsCentral TV) — Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Credit: Arise News.

However, the jury found that Musk filed the lawsuit too late under legal time limits, preventing the court from fully examining his main claims.

Following the verdict, OpenAI lawyer William Savitt said, “The finding of the jury confirms that this lawsuit was a hypocritical attempt to sabotage a competitor. Musk can bring his claims, and he can tell his stories, but what the nine members of this jury found is that his stories were just that, stories, not facts.”

While Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, said the legal fight is not over and signalled plans to appeal the ruling.

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