Overview
- The case, which starts with jury selection Monday in Oakland, tests whether OpenAI’s shift from a nonprofit lab to a profit-seeking structure breached its charitable duties.
- After pretrial rulings and Musk’s late move to drop fraud counts, the jury will hear only claims of breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment.
- Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers split the trial into separate liability and remedy phases and will make the final decision with the jury serving only in an advisory role.
- Musk says he will not take any money for himself and is seeking disgorgement from OpenAI’s for-profit arm to its nonprofit parent along with the ouster of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman.
- High-profile witnesses are expected, including Musk, Altman and possibly Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in a case that could reshape OpenAI’s governance and its path to a public listing.