Court dismisses Musk's claims against OpenAI, citing late filing
- A nine-person federal jury found that Elon Musk filed his lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman after the statutory deadline, leading to a dismissal of all claims on Monday.
- The jury deliberated less than two hours after a three-week trial in Oakland, California, before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers adopted the verdict as the court’s own.
- Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI who invested $38 million in the startup’s early years, had accused Altman and top deputies of shifting the company into a for-profit mode behind his back.
- OpenAI launched in 2015 as a nonprofit dedicated to guiding artificial intelligence’s development for the benefit of humanity, then went on to create the chatbot ChatGPT.
- The case turned on when the world’s richest man knew about OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit structurehol—
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