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Ah we are back at the museum store funding the museum.
Molo agrees that OpenAI needed money for compute. He is annoyed that a “brainstorming session” is being cast as evidence that Musk wanted to abandon OpenAI’s non-profit mission.
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We are now getting cross-examination from Musk’s lawyer.
She seems confused by a CTO not knowing what revenue had been generated. Scott noted he was not the chief revenue officer. He seemed amused.
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Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
Week three of Elon vs. Altman.
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Okay, it’s time for the cross of Achiam.
“Are you aware that OpenAI employees are better-compensated than any other employees in startup history?” lol lady, why would he know that. Anyway, he’s got millions of dollars in…
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Museum gift shop metaphor found dead in a ditch.
So during the opening statements, Musk’s lawyers said that a for-profit like a museum gift shop shouldn’t be bigger than a nonprofit, like a museum. We are now hearing from Daniel…
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Microsoft and OpenAI rest.
There is no rebuttal case from Musk’s team. We will get closing statements tomorrow.
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Molo has begun his closing statement for Elon Musk, who is in China.
“He’s sorry he could not be here,” Molo says. He’s thumping on how important jury service is, which is never a good sign in a closing statement.
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I see why Molo is leaning on the spoken testimony.
Look, this case is full of liars. It just is! The biggest problem for his side is the contemporaneous written evidence.
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Ah we are back at the museum store funding the museum.
Molo agrees that OpenAI needed money for compute. He is annoyed that a “brainstorming session” is being cast as evidence that Musk wanted to abandon OpenAI’s non-profit mission.
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Musk’s early money meant “a great, great deal,” Molo says. Inarguable!
That money grew OpenAI “so the defendants could do these things that they’re doing now, that they shouldn’t do.” Sam Altman, seated in the courtroom, looks confused by this.
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Molo is now suggesting that the “crown jewels” of OpenAI are its IP.
And that the “important constraints” of the capped-profit structure in the first two Microsoft investments did not breach the charitable trust. However, the 2023…
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We are back on the millions and billions of OpenAI equity that employees have interest in.
I am just going to break from telling you what Molo is saying to say what my personal impression was from sitting here all these weeks: Everyone was improvising. There was no…
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During our break, the jurors were out of the room, and the lawyers were beefing again.
During his speech, Molo told the jury he wasn’t asking for money. That is in fact not true — otherwise I wouldn’t be sitting through phase 2 of the trial next week. “You slipped…
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Molo is now attempting to make a case against Microsoft.
So far he’s got “they’re a for-profit corporation,” “they know Musk was a co-founder,” and “they read the announcement OpenAI existed.” This is easily the thinnest part of a very…
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For all of the very irritating testimony about “the blip,” Molo hasn’t convincingly connected it to his case.
In all that chaos, Microsoft did suggest board members. But OpenAI didn’t take those suggestions — except one, well after the crisis. I don’t know man, I don’t really understand…
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Molo is done presenting Musk’s closing argument.
I do wonder how this would have played in the hands of a better lawyer. Molo’s book report did not overwhelm me with confidence in his case, particularly because a lot of his…
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Sarah Eddy is giving the closing argument for OpenAI.
She opens with a banger. Musk has said he made donations with strings attached. “Even the mother of his children can’t back his story.”
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We are back from our break. William Savitt is taking it home for the OpenAI defense.
There’s one more thing that Savitt is harping on. “Has the OpenAI nonprofit respected its general founding principles?” The question doesn’t matter, legally, since Musk didn’t…