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Elon Musk testifies against OpenAI, seeking Sam Altman's ouster
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Elon Musk arrives at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, April 28, 2026.
Key facts
- Elon Musk arrives at the U.S. District Court in Oakland, Calif., Tuesday, April 28, 2026
- Musk poured about $38 million into the nonprofit over the course of about 5 years, Molo said
- The crux of his dispute with OpenAI, Molo said, is that OpenAI later did a $10 billion deal with Microsoft
- We don't want to have a Terminator outcome," Musk said, referring to the 1984 James Cameron film about smart robots trying to destroy humanity
Summary
Elon Musk arrives at the U.S. A courtroom brawl between two of the tech industry's most powerful leaders, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is underway in Oakland, California in a case that could transform one of the world's most important artificial intelligence companies. In his lawsuit, Musk has argued that Altman steered the company they cofounded a decade ago, ChatGPT creator OpenAI, away from its original mission as a nonprofit meant to develop advanced AI for the benefit of humanity and free of profit motives. The case hinges on a decision early on by OpenAI's founders that they needed to create a for-profit entity to tap capital markets for funding on a scale necessary to build advanced AI. The following year, OpenAI launched a for-profit division, which has since ballooned in value; at the end of March, the company said it was worth $852 billion.