Musk sues to oust OpenAI CEO
Posted on: Apr 09, 2026 07:21 IST | Posted by: Rt
< warm>Tech billionaire Elon Musk is seeking to feature OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and chairman Greg Brockman fired as constituent of his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence giant, court documents filed on Tuesday show.
The mogul sued OpenAI in 2024, accusing it of defrauding him of $38 million in initial funding he contributed when co-founding the company in 2015, under the understanding that it would remain a nonprofit. The AI startup, valued at $852 billion, restructured late last year, and is now run as a nonprofit that holds a 26% stake in its for-profit arm, which includes ChatGPT.
Musk’s lawyers are seeking to “strip Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of their positions of authority and the personal financial benefits they extracted from OpenAI’s illicit for-profit operations and conversion,” according to the latest filing.
Both arms of OpenAI also need to honor commitments to “safety-first AI development and open research for the broad benefit of humanity,” Musk’s legal team said. Any damages awarded would go to the AI company’s nonprofit arm, according to the amended complaint. The case is set to go to trial later this month.
OpenAI has in turn accused Musk of attempting to discredit the company through “wholly unfounded allegations,” and has reportedly alleged that he is colluding with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to undermine competition.
Musk left OpenAI in 2018 due to disagreements with Altman, bought Twitter (now X) in 2022, and launched his own artificial intelligence firm xAI the following year.
In February, xAI and OpenAI announced deals with the Pentagon to integrate their artificial intelligence tools into the US military’s classified systems. Altman claimed that his company agreed to cooperate under the condition that its tools would not be used for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.
However, these same two conditions have been non-negotiable for the Pentagon in its row with Anthropic, the US military’s previous go-to for AI needs. The US Department of War officially designated Anthropic a supply chain risk that threatens national security, after the tech company refused to remove safeguards from its Claude model.
Anthropic’s newest AI model is “extremely autonomous,” can reason like an advanced security researcher and is far too powerful for public release, the company claimed on Wednesday, as it continues to fight the Pentagon in court.
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