A judge denied Elon Musk’s move to halt OpenAI’s efforts to convert into a for-profit entity, saying he hasn't met “the high burden required for a preliminary injunction.'
A California judge denied Elon Musk’s move to halt OpenAI’s efforts to convert it into a for-profit entity, saying in a ruling that the SpaceX and Tesla CEO hadn't met "the high burden required for a preliminary injunction.
" The declaration from U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland comes after Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman last year, arguing that OpenAI’s founders first approached him to back a nonprofit focused on developing AI for humanity, but now want to make money, according to Reuters. Rogers said in her ruling that she is gearing up to expedite a trial on the matter later this year. "We look forward to a jury confirming that Altman accepted Musk's charitable contributions knowing full well they had to be used for the public's benefit rather than his own enrichment," Musk lawyer Marc Toberoff told Reuters. TRUMP INTRODUCES ELON MUSK TO GOP OVATION BEFORE RATTLING OFF SEVERAL DOGE VICTORIES Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 along with Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman and others, split from the company in early 2018 after failing to secure control over the company as its majority shareholder and CEO and later attempting to convince its founders to merge it with Tesla. Musk founded xAI, a competitor to OpenAI, in March 2023. In December 2024, Musk asked a court to stop OpenAI – the maker of ChatGPT – from transitioning into a for-profit entity, Reuters reported. OPENAI HITS BACK AT ELON MUSK LAWSUIT, SAYS HE SUGGESTED FOR-PROFIT ENTITY "This has always been about competition," OpenAI told the Associated Press in response to the judge’s ruling. "Elon’s own emails show that he wanted to merge a for-profit OpenAI into Tesla. That would have been great for his personal benefit, but not for our mission or U.S. interests." Musk submitted an unsolicited bid of $97.4 billion to take over OpenAI earlier this year. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS "I think he is probably just trying to slow us down. He obviously is a competitor. He’s working hard to raise a lot of money for xAI and they are trying to compete with us from a technological perspective from getting the product into the market," Altman told Bloomberg at the time, adding that "I wish he would just compete by building a better product but I think there has been a lot of tactics, you know many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff and now this." FOX Business’ Eric Revell contributed to this report.
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