The bitter legal fight between Elon Musk and the leading artificial intelligence firm, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, may come down to a few pages in one executive¡¯s personal diary. ¡°This is the only chance we have to get out from Elon,¡± wrote Greg Brockman, OpenAI¡¯s president and a co-founder, in the fall of 2017. ¡°Is he the ¡®glorious leader¡¯ that I would pick?¡±
Brockman¡¯s diary entry is part of the thousands of pages of internal documents revealed in court since Musk, one of the original co-founders of OpenAI, sued the company, its chief executive Altman and Brockman in 2024. Jury selection was completed on Monday in ?the Oakland, California, federal court for a high-stakes trial over the future of OpenAI, known for the ChatGPT chatbot, and perhaps the future of artificial intelligence itself.
Musk is seeking $150 billion in damages from ?OpenAI and Microsoft, ?one of its largest investors, according to a person involved in the case, with proceeds going to OpenAI¡¯s charitable arm. He will try to convince the nine-person ?jury that Altman and Brockman conned him into investing in OpenAI, by straying from its founding mission as a nonprofit to focus on profit rather than helping society.
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