Musk Amends OpenAI Suit, Seeks Altman and Brockman Ouster

Elon Musk has amended his lawsuit against OpenAI, seeking the removal of CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman from their leadership positions as part of a broader effort to restore the artificial intelligence company's nonprofit status. The filing, submitted on Tuesday in federal court in Oakland, California, comes ahead of a trial scheduled to begin with jury selection on April 27.

Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 alongside Altman and others, alleges that the company misled him into providing $38 million in early funding by promising it would remain a nonprofit dedicated to open-source AI research for the benefit of humanity. According to the amended complaint, OpenAI has since deviated from that mission through a restructuring completed last October, under which the nonprofit entity now holds only a 26 percent stake in its for-profit subsidiary that develops and operates tools like ChatGPT. The company is currently valued at $852 billion.

In the updated filing, Musk's legal team requests that any damages awarded, potentially exceeding $150 billion from OpenAI and its primary investor Microsoft, be directed to OpenAI's charitable arm rather than to Musk personally....