Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman has been dismissed by a California jury because Musk filed the lawsuit too late, exceeding the statute of limitations. The jury also ruled that OpenAI was not liable for Musk’s claim that the company deviated from its original mission “to use artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity.”
Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against Sam Altman and Gregory Brockman, who co-founded OpenAI in 2024. Musk claims that the two defendants violated OpenAI’s original purpose of being a non-profit artificial general intelligence (AGI) company that is for the benefit of humanity.
This deviation from the original idea is not helped by the fact that OpenAI is now seen as helping Microsoft make a profit for the company rather than for the benefit of humanity. The ChatGPT model is used by Microsoft in its Copilot product with a monthly subscription.
Musk is seeking up to $150 billion in damages from OpenAI, but the jury said the lawsuit should have been filed within three years of him leaving the company in 2018 after failing to make an acquisition. With this case dismissed by a jury, OpenAI is now free to file for their IPO which is expected to give the company a market value of up to $1 trillion.
