{"id":624633,"date":"2026-05-05T10:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/624633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:14:22","slug":"musk-wanted-to-settle-with-openai-just-days-before-their-courtroom-showdown-new-filing-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/624633\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk wanted to settle with OpenAI just days before their courtroom showdown, new filing says"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n Elon Musk sought a potential settlement with OpenAI two days before his massive trial against the ChatGPT maker<\/a> began last week, a new court filing from OpenAI says.\n <\/p>\n

\n Musk sent a message to OpenAI President Greg Brockman \u201cto gauge interest in settlement\u201d on April 25, according to a filing submitted Sunday evening by OpenAI. The trial, which could shake up the AI race by removing CEO Sam Altman and Brockman from OpenAI\u2019s board if Musk gets his way, kicked off in a federal courthouse in Oakland, Calif. last week.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWhen Mr. Brockman responded with a suggestion that both sides drop their respective claims, Mr. Musk shot back: \u2018By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be,\u2019\u201d the filing states.\n <\/p>\n

\n Musk sued OpenAI and its leaders claiming they breached a charitable trust and unjustly enriched themselves by transitioning from a nonprofit to its current structure. The AI company is now a for-profit benefit corporation overseen by a nonprofit foundation.\n <\/p>\n

\n Musk, who helped co-found and fund OpenAI, claimed the company and its executives deceived him into donating money to help create what is now one of the world\u2019s biggest AI companies, accusing them of \u201cstealing a charity\u201d in his testimony.\n <\/p>\n

\n OpenAI claims Musk had pushed for a for-profit structure and is only pursuing legal action to bring down a competitor after he wasn\u2019t able to retain control over the company. Musk left OpenAI\u2019s board in 2018 and founded his own AI company, called xAI, in 2023.\n <\/p>\n

\n OpenAI\u2019s attorneys tried to submit Musk\u2019s messages as evidence.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIt tends to prove motive and bias, and, in particular, that Mr. Musk\u2019s motivation in pursuing this lawsuit is to attack a competitor and its principals,\u201d the attorneys wrote in the filing.\n <\/p>\n

\n But Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers denied the request, telling OpenAI\u2019s attorneys they should have submitted it as evidence during Musk\u2019s testimony.\n <\/p>\n

\n Musk\u2019s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment.\n <\/p>\n

\n Altman worried that Musk would drop the case right before the trial, leaving him and OpenAI without a chance to tell their side of the story, he said on the Core Memory podcast last month.\n <\/p>\n

\n OpenAI attorneys, who at times clashed with Musk in the courtroom last week, presented evidence they said showed Musk wanted a for-profit corporation, including evidence that he directed his associates to register a corporation in OpenAI\u2019s name. Musk\u2019s attorneys presented messages from 2022 in which Musk told Altman that OpenAI\u2019s $20 billion valuation following Microsoft\u2019s $10 billion investment felt like a \u201cbait and switch.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cI agree it feels bad,\u201d Altman replied, before noting Musk declined the equity OpenAI offered him.\n <\/p>\n

\n Brockman, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other high-profile figures in the tech industry are also expected to testify over the next couple of weeks.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk sought a potential settlement with OpenAI two days before his massive trial against the ChatGPT maker…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":["post-624633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}