OpenAI is asking Meta to produce evidence related to any coordinated plans with Elon Musk and xAI to acquire or invest in the ChatGPT-maker.<\/p>\n
The request was made public in a brief<\/a> filed Thursday in Elon Musk\u2019s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI. Lawyers representing OpenAI said they subpoenaed Meta in June for documents related to its potential involvement in Musk\u2019s unsolicited, $97 billion bid<\/a> to takeover the startup in February. It\u2019s unclear from the filing whether such evidence exists. OpenAI ultimately denied Musk\u2019s bid.<\/p>\n OpenAI\u2019s lawyers say they discovered that Musk communicated with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg concerning xAI\u2019s bid to purchase the ChatGPT-maker, including \u201cabout potential financing arrangements or investments.\u201d <\/p>\n Meta objected to OpenAI\u2019s initial subpoena in July; the ChatGPT-maker\u2019s lawyers are now seeking a court order to obtain such evidence. OpenAI is also asking the court for any of Meta\u2019s documents and communications related to \u201cany actual or potential restructuring or recapitalization of OpenAI\u201d \u2014 the core issue in Musk\u2019s lawsuit against OpenAI.<\/p>\n Meta spokesperson Andy Stone directed TechCrunch towards a section of OpenAI\u2019s filing which states that neither Meta nor Zuckerberg signed Musk\u2019s letter of intent to acquire the ChatGPT-maker. <\/p>\n Meta declined to comment further. OpenAI and legal counsel for Musk did not immediately respond to TechCrunch\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n In the background of OpenAI\u2019s fight with Elon Musk, Meta has significantly invested in its own efforts to develop frontier AI models. In 2023, Meta executives obsessed<\/a> over developing an AI model that could beat OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4, court filings in another case revealed. By early 2025, Meta\u2019s AI models fell behind the industry standard, reportedly infuriating<\/a> Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n Techcrunch event<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSan Francisco Zuckerberg has upped the pressure in recent months, poaching several of OpenAI\u2019s leading AI researchers, including a co-creator of ChatGPT, Shengjia Zhao<\/a>, who now leads research efforts at the company\u2019s newest AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs. Meta also invested $14 billion in Scale AI, and reportedly approached several other AI labs about acquisition deals.<\/p>\n While it\u2019s unclear how far talks developed between Musk and Zuckerberg, the mere idea of a partnership between the two billionaires represents just how much of a threat OpenAI is. Two years ago, Musk said he would physically fight Zuckerberg in a cage match<\/a> (it never happened though). <\/p>\n The rise of AI may have prompted Musk and Zuckerberg to set aside their differences.<\/p>\n The briefing disclosed Thursday is part of a larger lawsuit<\/a> filed by Musk against OpenAI that takes issue with OpenAI\u2019s conversion of its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation. Such a conversion is necessary for OpenAI to obtain funding from investors, and eventually go public. However, Musk \u2014 a cofounder and early investor in OpenAI \u2014 has attempted to throw a wrench<\/a> in the endeavor, claiming that the restructuring goes against the startup\u2019s founding mission.<\/p>\n Lawyers representing Meta asked the court to reject OpenAI\u2019s request for evidence, arguing that Musk and xAI can provide any relevant information. Meta also argues that its internal discussions of OpenAI\u2019s restructuring and recapitalization are not relevant to the case.<\/p>\n This story has been updated to add more information about the case, as well as history of Musk and Zuckerberg\u2019s relationship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI is asking Meta to produce evidence related to any coordinated plans with Elon Musk and xAI to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,3284,278,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-87608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-musk","14":"tag-openai","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t|
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 27-29, 2025\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n