What Does the Case Hinge Upon?
Musk filed the lawsuit last year. Initially, his claim was that Altman and co had “manipulated him” to “Shakespearean proportions” into co-founding the AI company under the guise of it being a for-profit enterprise focused on developing humanity.
He later added the gripe that OpenAI was behaving in an anticompetitive way.
However, US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, threw out some of Musk’s claims, damning them as being a “stretch,” and causing “irreparable harm.” He also argued that OpenAI should not be forced to stop its bid to become a for-profit business.
He did not throw them out entirely, so a court standoff is now likely.
