Jury rejects Elon Musks lawsuit, sides with OpenAI in bitter feud over AI future
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A federal jury sided with OpenAI and its top executives on Monday in a feud with Elon Musk, who accused them of betraying a shared vision for it to guide artificial intelligence’s development as a nonprofit.The nine-person jury unanimously found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for the statute of limitations.Musk, the world’s richest man, was a co-founder of OpenAI, the company that launched in 2015 and went on to create ChatGPT.After investing $38 million in its first years, Musk accused OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his top deputy of shifting into a moneymaking mode behind his back.The jury served in an advisory role, but U.S.
District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the verdict Monday as the court’s own and dismissed Musk’s claims.“I think there is a substantial amount of evidence to support the jury’s findings,” Rogers said when she accepted the jury’s conclusion after about two hours of deliberation.The trial that began on April 27 in Oakland shed light on the bitter falling-out between the two Silicon Valley titans and on the origins of OpenAI, now a company valued at $852 billion and on track to potentially pull off one of the largest initial public offerings in history.“The jury wasted no time, taking 90 minutes to find that Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI for breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment were filed too late under the respective statute of limitations,” Edward Lee, a law professor at Santa Clara University, noted in his blog.Microsoft, which is one of OpenAI’s biggest shareholders and customers, applauded the decision.
“The facts and the timeline in this case have long been clear, and we welcome the jury’s decision to dismiss these claims as untimely,” the company said in a statement.“We remain committed to our work with OpenAI to advance and scale AI for people and organization...