LOS ANGELES—After nearly three weeks of evidence in one of the most scrutinized legal battles of the century, nine jurors on May 18 took less than two hours to decide Elon Musk had waited too long to accuse his former partners in a nonprofit startup of betraying their founding mission to create artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity.
The Tesla CEO sued OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in 2024, alleging they “looted” the charity he funded and flipped it to a for-profit company by exclusively licensing their flagship technology, ChatGPT, to Microsoft.
