Overview
- Sam Altman told a California jury that staff morale at OpenAI improved after Elon Musk left the company.
- He said OpenAI aimed to prevent any one person from controlling artificial general intelligence and argued Musk sought long-term control.
- Prior witnesses challenged Altman’s credibility, with ex-CTO Mira Murati saying he “created chaos” and Ilya Sutskever describing a pattern of deceit before later regretting his vote to reinstate him.
- Elon Musk’s lawsuit asks the court to revert OpenAI to a nonprofit, remove Altman and Greg Brockman from the board, and move more than $130 billion back to the nonprofit arm.
- The case now moves toward closing arguments, and the outcome could affect a planned IPO as jurors weigh testimony about Microsoft’s deep ties to OpenAI.