A jury rejected Elon Musk¡¯s claims that OpenAI under Sam Altman¡¯s leadership betrayed its mission to benefit the public by morphing into a for-profit business, finding that he waited too long to sue the company.
The verdict reached Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, follows a trial over the bitter feud between the entrepreneurs who worked together to launch the startup in 2015. OpenAI has since evolved into one of the world¡¯s most valuable and powerful artificial intelligence companies.
¡°I think there is a substantial amount of evidence to support the jury¡¯s findings,¡± U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said when she accepted the nine-member jury¡¯s unanimous conclusion after about two hours of deliberations.
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