Elon Musk on Thursday sparred with an attorney for OpenAI during his third day of testimony in the contentious trial over the company’s pivot from nonprofit status to a for-profit venture valued at hundreds of billions of dollars.

Elon Musk, who split from OpenAI years after cofounding it as a nonprofit in 2015, said it was putting commercial interests over the public’s. A company lawyer said Mr. Musk had sued because he did not get his way.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead.

"Elon has spent years harassing OpenAI through baseless lawsuits and public attacks," the statement alleges.

Elon Musk returned to the witness stand on Wednesday to continue telling his side of the story in his legal battle against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman. Under cross-examination from OpenAI’s lawyers,

In 2018 Hideo Kojima visited Valve headquarters to talk about Death Stranding. Based on emails now public thanks to the ongoing Musk v. Altman lawsuit, Kojima and Gabe Newell seem

Lawyers for Open AI and Microsoft countered that there was no evidence of a promise to maintain Open AI as a charity, and that the “sour grapes” came only after the value of Open AI soared and a jealous Mr Musk founded a lab of his own, xAI. Besides, the three-year statute of limitations had passed, they added.

The high-profile trial between Elon Musk and Sam Altman is scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection. In his $134 billion lawsuit, Musk claimed that OpenAI, Altman and the company's president, Greg Brockman,