In the courtroom, Musk, wearing a dark suit and tie, started his testimony as Altman and OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman, who is also being sued, looked on in the front.<\/p>\n
Musk acknowledged that he had intended to have initial control over OpenAI but added he expected to have that control change quickly as more investors got involved.<\/p>\n
The tech billionaire said he wanted to ensure the company was headed in the right direction early on because he was providing almost all the capital for it.<\/p>\n
Noting that he has created many for-profit companies, Musk said, “I could have done that with OpenAI, but I chose not to. I chose something that was for the public benefit.”<\/p>\n
“I deliberately chose to create this as a non-profit for the public good.”<\/p>\n
Musk is asking for billions of dollars in what his lawyers call “wrongful gains” that he wants used to fund OpenAI’s non-profit arm, and he wants to see a shake-up at the company including the ousting of Altman.<\/p>\n
OpenAI has said Musk is using the lawsuit to derail one of his key competitors in the AI race, despite trying to portray himself as a paragon of safety and regulation.<\/p>\n
In court, Savitt tried to poke holes in Musk’s argument that he wanted OpenAI to remain a non-profit due to his concerns about Artificial General Intelligence – the kind of AI that surpasses human intelligence – falling into the wrong hands.<\/p>\n
A year after OpenAI released the wildly successful ChatGPT, Musk launched a competing AI startup, xAI.<\/p>\n
Savitt highlighted Musk’s decision to launch xAI, the maker of the chatbot Grok, as a for-profit company.<\/p>\n
The case, which could have far-reaching implications for the industry, is expected to last several weeks.<\/p>\n
The head of Tesla’s claims include breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the courtroom, Musk, wearing a dark suit and tie, started his testimony as Altman and OpenAI co-founder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-558170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}