Elon Musk is still taking OpenAI to court over turning it into a profitable company, but today he amended the complaint so that he personally won’t get any of the $150 billion in damages he’s trying to get. wall street journal The report says that if Musk wins his upcoming trial, he wants any losses to be awarded to the OpenAI non-profit arm. If his lawsuit is successful he is also seeking to remove OpenAI CEO Sam Altman from the nonprofit’s board of directors.
Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in 2024, claiming that the business had become a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft when it removed its non-profit designation. He claims that, as co-chair of the OpenAI founding group, the shift to for-profit operations betrayed him as a donor. As a result, he is now claiming that he, or apparently the remaining non-profit side of OpenAI, is entitled to a portion of the company’s current valuation.
Given the reputation of Musk, Altman, and their various business endeavors for creating spicy PR situations, it seems likely that the exchanges between the two camps will become more heated as the trial date approaches.
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