In a unanimous verdict, the jury agreed that Musk had waited too long to file his lawsuit
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Musk had accused Altman of breaching a non-profit contract by shifting the ChatGPT-maker to a for-profit company after Musk donated $38m (£28.5m) early in OpenAI's history.
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Musk had accused Altman of breaching a non-profit contract by shifting the ChatGPT-maker to a for-profit company after Musk donated $38m (£28.5m) early in OpenAI's history
The pair started OpenAI in 2015, but Musk left in 2018 after his co-founders denied him control
Raffi Melkonian, an appellate lawyer who has argued before the US Supreme Court and is a partner at Wright, Close, Barger & Guzman LLP, wrote online of Musk's plans to challenge the outcome: "Appeals
A California jury has tossed out Elon Musk's high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman
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A California jury has tossed out Elon Musk's high-profile lawsuit against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman. In a unanimous verdict, the jury agreed that Musk had waited too long to file his lawsuit, leaving all of his claims expired. Musk claimed Altman had deceived him by accepting his money and then reneging on OpenAI's original non-profit mission to develop artificial intelligence (AI) technology for the benefit of humanity. Jurors spent about two hours on Monday deliberating on the case, but they had spent three weeks viewing internal correspondence and hearing testimony from Musk, Altman and other tech industry executives, such as Microsoft's chief executive Satya Nadella.