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AI illustrationElon Musk gave OpenAI $38 million. Should he win his lawsuit?
Your callShould Elon Musk win his lawsuit against OpenAI?
TL;DR
- 1Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a nonprofit to build AI for the good of humanity, and donated $38 million.
- 2OpenAI later created a for-profit arm and is now valued at $852 billion; Musk sued Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, saying they turned the charity into a business.
- 3OpenAI says Musk knew about the change for years and waited too long to sue, and calls the lawsuit an attack on a competitor.



