{"id":43253,"date":"2026-01-17T16:41:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/musk-is-asking-for-up-to-134-billion-in-his-legal-battle-against-openai-and-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:41:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:41:19","slug":"musk-is-asking-for-up-to-134-billion-in-his-legal-battle-against-openai-and-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/musk-is-asking-for-up-to-134-billion-in-his-legal-battle-against-openai-and-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk is asking for up to $134 billion in his legal battle against OpenAI and Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6936b95a71107c9f34577fc7?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Elon Musk at a news conference in the Oval Office of the White House, May 30, 2025, in Washington.\"\/><figcaption>Elon Musk erupted at the EU all weekend, blasting Brussels over censorship and bureaucracy after X was hit with a major fine for &quot;fake&quot; blue checkmarks.<\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Evan Vucci, File<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>A court filing revealed Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft.<\/li>\n<li>His claim that he was defrauded of seed money he donated in 2015 will be heard by a jury in April.<\/li>\n<li>Musk&#039;s lawyer says he is now entitled to a percentage of OpenAI&#039;s current $500 billion valuation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elon Musk is demanding that OpenAI and Microsoft pay him damages in the range of $79 billion to $134 billion over his claims that he was defrauded.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the claim were revealed by Musk&#039;s lawyer on Friday in a court filing ahead of a high-stakes jury trial set for April in Oakland, California.<\/p>\n<p>The calculation of damages was laid out by the expert witness C. Paul Wazzan, named in the filing as &quot;a financial economist with decades of professional and academic experience.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The document alleges Musk was defrauded of the $38 million in seed money he donated to OpenAI when he helped found it in 2015, and states he is now entitled to a percentage of OpenAI&#039;s current $500 billion valuation.<\/p>\n<p>Musk said on his social media platform, X, on Friday: &quot;Can&#039;t wait to start the trial. The discovery and testimony will blow your mind.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Musk is suing OpenAI&#039;s key leaders, including the CEO Sam Altman and the president Greg Brockman, over allegations that the AI company misled him by shifting away from its core mission to remain a nonprofit.<\/p>\n<p>Wazzan calculated that Musk should receive $65.50 billion to $109.43 billion in &quot;wrongful gains&quot; from OpenAI. He made a similar calculation for Microsoft&#039;s &quot;wrongful gains,&quot; which equated to between $13.30 billion and $25.06 billion.<\/p>\n<h2>OpenAI defended itself in a blog post<\/h2>\n<p>Musk has been using recently unsealed court documents to attack his rival in posts on 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; It added 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, OpenAI, and Microsoft, did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Business Insider, outside of business hours. <\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk erupted at the EU all weekend, blasting Brussels over censorship and bureaucracy after X was hit with a major fine for &quot;fake&quot; blue checkmarks. AP Photo\/Evan Vucci, File A court filing revealed Elon Musk is seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI and Microsoft. 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