Musk takes legal action against to block OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit structure

Musk cofounded OpenAI with Altman in 2015

OpenAI argues for-profit relocation required for capital

Nonprofit to for-profit conversion rare, expert says

(Adds judge did not decide whether or not to release the injunction in paragraph 5, OpenAi’s legal representatives’ comment in paragraph 13)

By Anna Tong and Akash Sriram

OAKLAND, Calif., imoodle.win Feb 4 (Reuters) - A federal judge said on Tuesday that parts of Elon Musk’s claim against OpenAI to halt its conversion to a for-profit entity may go to trial, including that the Tesla CEO will need to appear in court and testify.

“Something is going to trial in this case,” U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California, said early in the court session.

”(Elon Musk will) sit on the stand, present it to a jury, and a jury will choose who is right.” Rogers was thinking about Musk’s current demand for a preliminary injunction to block OpenAI’s conversion before going to trial, the current relocation in a grudge match in between the world’s richest individual and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman that is playing out openly in court.

Rogers did not choose whether to provide the injunction Tuesday, but at one point suggested that Musk’s legal group had not provided adequate evidence for her to release the injunction, and showed she may hold an evidentiary hearing, library.kemu.ac.ke where both sides could present witnesses and proof. The last time Rogers offered a preliminary injunction remained in Epic Games’ case against Apple in May 2021.

Musk cofounded OpenAI with Altman in 2015, but left before the business took off and consequently established the competing AI start-up xAI in 2023. OpenAI is now attempting to shift from a not-for-profit into a for-profit entity, which it says it needs to do to protect the capital needed to develop the very best expert system designs. In 2015, Musk filed a claim against OpenAI and Altman, stating that OpenAI ´ s creators originally approached him to fund a nonprofit focused on developing AI to benefit humanity, but that it is now focused on making money. He later broadened the claim to include federal antitrust and other claims, and [users.atw.hu](http://users.atw.hu/samp-info-forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=a9e94d89162a17c14e2e1819f530fab0&action=profile