Could The Musk V. Altman Trial Change The AI Race?

ByTim Keary,

Contributor.

Jury selection began Monday for the Musk v. Altman lawsuit at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California. The $134 billion lawsuit alleges that OpenAI cofounder and CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman manipulated Elon Musk into cofounding “their spurious non-profit venture."

Musk issued new comments on the case, saying, “Scam Altman and Greg Stockman stole a charity. Full stop,” in a Monday post on X. “The fundamental question is simply this: Do you want to set legal precedent in the United States that it is ok to loot a charity? If so, you undermine all charitable giving in the United States forever.”

OpenAI countered in its own X post that same morning that the suit “has always been a baseless and jealous bid to derail a competitor.”