… In his lawsuit, Musk is asking for the removal of Altman and Brockman, and for OpenAI to stop operating as a public benefit corporation. Musk has also demanded that OpenAI’s nonprofit receive up to $150 billion in damages he’s asking for if he wins the case. …
… Companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have accused Chinese firms of distilling their models, with OpenAI publicly stating its concerns about DeepSeek, and Anthropic specifically naming DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax. …
… Microsoft will remain OpenAI’s “primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities.” But OpenAI can “now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider.” That lets OpenAI pursue its goals … …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has begun his testimony against Elon Musk in a high-profile jury trial in a California federal courtroom. Altman, alongside OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is a primary defendant in the trial brought by Musk. …
… The crux of the suit alleges that OpenAI violated its core mission to build AGI, or artificial general intelligence, that benefits all of humanity, and it also makes allegations of potential fraud, unjust enrichment, and breach of OpenAI’s charitable trust. …
… He also folded xAI into SpaceX, as he had planned to do with OpenAI and Tesla. OpenAI has responded to Musk by blogging. According to OpenAI, Musk himself wanted a for-profit arm of OpenAI — and further, 50 to 60 percent of its equity, and to be its CEO. He also proposed merging OpenAI with Tesla. …
… OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger now works for OpenAI. OpenAI is also facing increased competition from Anthropic, which offers its own Claude Cowork agent that can complete tasks for you using files from your computer, as well as a separate platform for making autonomous agents. …
In response, Greg Brockman suggested both OpenAI and Musk drop their claims. Musk wasn’t interested. “By the end of this week, you and Sam Altman will be the most hated men in America,” he told them. OpenAI’s lawyers are trying to get the statement admitted to court as evidence that “Mr. …
… Since then, competition has only been getting stronger, with the arrival of tools like Google’s Nano Banana Pro and Microsoft’s MAI-Image-2. …
… Meta raided OpenAI for talent; several key OpenAI players such as Ilya Sutskever, Bob McGrew, and Mira Murati went on to found their own companies. Anthropic, one of OpenAI’s biggest competitors, is also composed of former OpenAI talent. …