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Sam Altman set testify in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is scheduled to take the witness stand Tuesday and Wednesday in Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company. At the heart of the case is Musk's claim that he was induced to give ...
Sam Altman testifies in trial that Elon Musk 'tried to kill' OpenAI twice
OAKLAND, Calif. — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman took the witness stand Tuesday in a trial that pits him against Elon Musk over the future of the organization they co-founded more than a decade ago.Altman and Musk created OpenAI together as a nonprofit research center in 2015 and years later had a falling out over control and the creation of a for-profit arm that’s behind ChatGPT.Altman told the jury that he did not understand Musk’s allegation that he and other OpenAI executives were stealing from a charity.“It feels difficult to even wrap my head around that framing,” he testified. He acknowledged that the OpenAI board had used “creative ways to keep it going,” by taking outside investment and creating the for-profit arm, but he said the result has been “one of the largest charities in the world.”Elon Musk arrives at U.S. District Court in Oakland on April 28.Godofredo A. Vásquez / AP fileAltman, a 41-year-old St. Louis native and Stanford dropout, is a longtime tech investor who led YCombinator, a startup incubator, before becoming OpenAI CEO in 2019. He burst onto the national business spotlight after the release of ChatGPT in 2022, signaling a new boom era for artificial intelligence.Altman began testifying on the ninth day of the billionaire-filled trial. The jury is scheduled to hear closing statements Thursday. Musk sued Altman and a third co-founder, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, in 2024, alleging that they are enriching themselves at the expense of what he says was supposed to be a charity. Altman and Brockman have countered that the lawsuit is harassment of a competitor after Musk created his own artificial intelligence startup, xAI, in 2023. They say OpenAI is still controlled by a nonprofit foundation board and that Musk agreed with them about the need to establish a for-profit arm to raise money from outside investors.Altman could only watch from the courtroom audience for the first two weeks of the trial as lawyers for Musk, the plaintiff, put on his case. But under questioning on the stand Tuesday, Altman gave his version of OpenAI’s history and how he and Musk came to have a falling out.Altman credited Musk, the celebrity CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, with having “a lot of brand value,” but he said Musk did not fully appreciate the contributions of other people who were involved in OpenAI’s early days.Altman said that during negotiations on the OpenAI board in 2017, he opposed the idea that Musk should become the CEO of the organization or the majorit...
Sam Altman Testifies That Elon Musk Wanted Control of OpenAI
Sam Altman, OpenAI's chief executive, defended the company against Elon Musk's allegations that the start-up betrayed its founding mission. Mr. Musk's lawyer assailed Mr. Altman as ...
Sam Altman Testimony: Musk Wanted to Pass OpenAI to His Children ...
Sam Altman took the stand to defend against Elon Musk's claims that OpenAI's for-profit transition involved "looting" the charity Musk cofounded.
