Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Elon Musk’s claim that he was victimized by the co-founder of OpenAI failed after nine California judges agreed that his lawsuit was filed too late.

Musk took Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, OpenAI and Microsoft to “steal charity” by creating a profitable partnership on the frontier of the AI ​​lab. However, the jury found that any harm Musk suffered came before the deadline to file his claim under the law.

Although the case delved into the history of OpenAI and presented testimony from Silicon Valley leaders, it was eventually opened. very narrow questions of the law. The lawsuit looked at when Altman and the defendants made and broke promises to Musk, but the trial failed to convince the jury that they were legitimate.

In particular, OpenAI made progress the law of the limits of securitywhich wanted to prove that any harm that Musk wanted to challenge had already happened in 2021. (The exact date differed from the case: before August 5, 2021 for the first count; August 5, 2022, for the second count; and November 14, 2021, for the third count.) In the end, the decision found a short time that the court found.

“There was a lot of evidence to support the jury’s findings, and that’s why I was ready to dismiss it immediately,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said after the verdict.

The settlement of the lawsuit means that one of the biggest risks to OpenAI – a potential restructuring – is now on the table ahead of its IPO.

When asked by TechCrunch, Musk’s executive director Marc Toberoff said, “One word: Complain.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.