Elon Musk has lashed out at judges and juries after his lawsuit against OpenAI was dismissed.
The CEO of xAI reacted to the decision through a post on X and accused the judge and jury of ruling not on the merits of the case but on a calendar technicality.
The world’s richest man wrote: “No one following the case in detail has any doubt that Altman and Brockman did in fact get rich by robbing a charity. The only question is WHEN they did it!”
Musk also announced that he will challenge the verdict in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, saying that “creating a precedent for looting charities is incredibly destructive to charitable giving in the United States.”
SpaceX’s CEO reiterated his claim that OpenAI is a nonprofit organization and said it was founded to benefit all of humanity.
In a separate post on X, the 54-year-old American businessman cited a tweet and accused the Oakland judge of being an activist.
He added that the judge simply used the jury as a fig leaf, creating a terrible precedent.
Musk continued: “They just gave a free license to loot charities if you can keep the looting quiet for a few years!”
This comes after the nine-person jury in Oakland unanimously decided to reject Elon Musk’s high-stakes lawsuit on Monday, May 18.
The decision marked the end of a three-week trial that featured testimony from OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Musk, Altman and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Musk’s lawsuit accused Altman and OpenAI of “stealing from a charity” by converting OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, from a nonprofit to a “for-profit” after Musk donated about $38 million to the original company.
