{"id":43215,"date":"2026-01-17T02:11:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openai-is-turning-to-the-court-of-public-opinion-in-its-battle-with-elon-musk\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T02:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:11:25","slug":"openai-is-turning-to-the-court-of-public-opinion-in-its-battle-with-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openai-is-turning-to-the-court-of-public-opinion-in-its-battle-with-elon-musk\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI is turning to the court of public opinion in its battle with Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6968ddc0764ca5f34d2a7d7a?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Elon Musk\"\/><figcaption>Elon Musk<\/p>\n<p>Chesnot\u2014Getty Images\/Reuters<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 100 documents were recently unsealed in Elon Musk&#039;s lawsuit against OpenAI.<\/li>\n<li>Musk&#039;s team has filed documents that suggest OpenAI was ready for a fight over its nonprofit status.<\/li>\n<li>OpenAI published a blog on Friday saying that the filing &quot;cherry-picks&quot; evidence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OpenAI is turning to the court of public opinion as it wages a legal battle with Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<p>While Musk and OpenAI prepare to head to a high-stakes jury trial in April, the two are duking it out online over what exactly happened when Musk split ways with the AI startup he helped cofound.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has been using recently unsealed court documents to attack his rival in posts on his social media platform, X. On Friday, OpenAI published a blog titled &quot;The truth Elon left out.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The blog, which provided commentary alongside excerpts from several court documents, alleges that Musk wanted &quot;full control&quot; of OpenAI, &quot;since he&#039;d been burned by not having it in the past,&quot; and that OpenAI&#039;s leadership was surprised when Musk suggested having his kids control AGI or artificial general intelligence during conversations about succession planning.<\/p>\n<p>The statements are aimed at the heart of Musk&#039;s lawsuit against OpenAI.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is suing OpenAI&#039;s key leaders, including CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, over allegations that the AI company misled him by shifting away from its core mission to remain a nonprofit. Musk said he donated $38 million to OpenAI when it was a nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>The startup, since its 2015 founding, operated as a nonprofit-controlled organization with a for-profit operating arm. It completed its transition to a for-profit public benefit corporation in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for Musk and OpenAI did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday, more than 100 documents related to the suit were unsealed, including diary entries from Brockman, which were obtained during the discovery process.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the entries that was highlighted, Brockman appeared to write about his misgivings about pushing Musk out of OpenAI and committing to a nonprofit-only entity.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Cannot say that we are committed to the non-profit,&quot; the entry from the court documents said. &quot;Don&#039;t want to say that we&#039;re committed. If three months later we&#039;re doing b-corp then it was a lie.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It was Brockman&#039;s diary entries that US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers cited in a recent ruling, in which she determined Musk had enough evidence that he&#039;d been misled to take the case to trial.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk Chesnot\u2014Getty Images\/Reuters More than 100 documents were recently unsealed in Elon Musk&#039;s lawsuit against OpenAI. Musk&#039;s team has filed documents that suggest OpenAI was ready for a fight over its nonprofit status. OpenAI published a blog on Friday saying that the filing &quot;cherry-picks&quot; evidence. 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