Elon Musk seeks ouster of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as part of lawsuit
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Elon Musk is seeking to have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman removed from their roles as officers in the company as part of a lawsuit.
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In a legal filing on Tuesday, Musk's lawyers laid out specific remedies their client is seeking if a judge and jury determine that Altman and OpenAI defrauded Musk, the world's richest person. Musk sued Altman and OpenAI in 2024, claiming the artificial intelligence company that he helped start almost a decade earlier "assiduously manipulated" and "deceived" him into donating $38 million, based on promises that the entity would remain a nonprofit. The two sides have since been embroiled in a public war of words, in addition to their legal battle and budding business rivalry. "Plaintiff will seek an order removing Altman as a director from the OpenAI nonprofit board and removing both Altman and Brockman as officers of the OpenAI for-profit," Musk's lawyers said in Tuesday's filing. "Removal of a charity's officers and directors is a common remedy where those individuals fail to protect or carry out the charity's public mission." Musk is also asking the court to make OpenAI revert to operating as an actual nonprofit, according to the filing. The company completed a restructuring in October, and is now run as a nonprofit with a 26% stake in the for-profit arm, which includes ChatGPT. Jury selection for the case is slated to begin on April 27, in a federal court in Oakland, California. OpenAI didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Musk, Altman and others co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit AI lab in 2015. Musk left OpenAI in 2018, after trying to convince executives there to merge it with Tesla , his electric vehicle company. In 2023, Musk launched a competing company called xAI, which developed the AI image generator and chatbot Grok. In February, Musk's SpaceX acquired xAI, which also owns X (formerly Twitter) in a deal that valued the combined entity at $1.25 trillion. SpaceX recently filed confidential paperwork with the SEC for what will likely be a record IPO. On Monday, OpenAI sent a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general, urging them ...
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