Elon Musk has sent an ‘open warning’ to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. In a post on microblogging site X (formerly known as Twitter), Musk said that he “can’t wait to start trial”, anticipating dramatic revelations from discovery and testimony in his ongoing lawsuit against the ChatGPT-maker. The tech billionaire was responding to an X post which said that there are 57% chance Elon Musk may win the case against OpenAI. “New court documents reveal OpenAI’s president admitted he wanted to turn OpenAI into ‘for profit’,” the post added. Replying to it, Elon Musk wrote: “Can’t wait to start the trial. The discovery and testimony will blow your mind.”Musk, who is one of the co-founders of OpenAI, has filed a lawsuit against the company and CEO Sam Altman alleging the AI company defrauded him by diverting from its non-profit roots.
Sam Altman responds to Elon Musk
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hit back to the Tesla CEO sharing notes from the calls that Musk refers to in the filings. “elon is cherry-picking things to make greg look bad, but the full story is that elon was pushing for a new structure, and greg and ilya spent a lot of time trying to figure out if they could meet his demands,” Altman wrote in an X post, sharing link to a blog post by OpenAI, showing more call notes with Musk’s quotes. He further writes in another post:“I remembered a lot of this, but here is a part I had forgotten:“Elon said he wanted to accumulate $80B for a self-sustaining city on Mars, and that he needed and deserved majority equity. He said that he needed full control since he’d been burned by not having it in the past, and when we discussed succession he surprised us by talking about his children controlling AGI.”I appreciate people saying what they want and think it enables people to resolve things (or not). But Elon saying he wants the above is important context for Greg trying to figure out what he wants”.
Elon Musk seeks $134 billion damages from OpenAI, Microsoft
In another news, Elon Musk recently filed a court filing demanding ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft to pay up to $134 billion claiming that the AI company defrauded him by diverting from its non-profit roots. According to a report by Bloomberg, Musk has filed a ‘damages request’ in court on January 16, 2026. The move comes a day after a federal judge rejected a final bid by OpenAI and Microsoft to avoid a jury trial set for late April in Oakland, California.“Just as an early investor in a startup company may realize gains many orders of magnitude greater than the investor’s initial investment, the wrongful gains that OpenAI and Microsoft have earned – and which Mr. Musk is now entitled to disgorge – are much larger than Mr. Musk’s initial contributions,” Elon Musk’s lawyer Steven Molo wrote in the filing.
