Overview
- Shivon Zilis, who testified Wednesday, denied acting as Elon Musk’s proxy and said he floated folding OpenAI into Tesla and offered Sam Altman a Tesla board seat.
- Mira Murati, in a sworn video deposition, said Altman was not always truthful, undermined her as CTO, and once falsely claimed lawyers cleared a model to bypass an internal safety board.
- Murati also said Microsoft had a 6–12 month exclusivity window to commercialize OpenAI technology and that staff, not Microsoft, organized the 2023 petition to reinstate Altman.
- A former safety researcher, Rosie Campbell, testified that OpenAI cut long‑term safety teams and at times launched products without full safety review or board awareness.
- The advisory jury is weighing liability in Musk’s suit alleging OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission, and the judge could order damages or governance changes later in May.