Earlier this week, Musk amended his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. He is still looking to recover the lucrative $134 billion he allegedly defrauded by switching from non-profit to for-profit status. Now, however, he is asking for potential damages to be paid not to him, the world’s richest man, but to OpenAI’s nonprofit.
He also wants the company’s CEO Sam Altman and its president Greg Brockman ousted.
OpenAI says this is Musk “trying to reframe his public narrative about his lawsuit.” In fact this is a significant change in how a story can be structured. Instead of a billionaire looking for another big buck, it turns out to be a billionaire who wants to restore the corporate structure of the firm he allegedly wronged.
OpenAI described such a move by Musk as a “legal ambush” just weeks before the trial is scheduled to begin later this month, which is “legally unfair and factually unsupported.” The filing also said, “Musk’s proposed amendment would require the presentation of different evidence and different witnesses than the case he sponsored up to three days ago.”
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