Ankur Desai

And the company was founded with quite kind of benevolent purposes, at least on the surface of it.

It was supposed to save the world from a dystopian future.

I've got their first mission statement in front of me.

It said, our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return.

Now, since then, the company has restructured its launch chat GPT and it's also launched a for profit arm, which is valued around $850 billion, the company as a whole.

Now, Elon Musk left in 2018 after relations turned sour.

And in this court case, he's alleging that he was conned, that the $40 million he put in at the start was basically taken under false pretenses and

and essentially that OpenAI were dishonest by starting to make money.

Now, his original complaint contains some quite powerful language.

It describes the case as a textbook case of altruism versus greed.

It says that Musk's humanitarian nature was preyed on and that the deceit here is of Shakespearean proportions.

Now, he's pushing for more than $130 billion in damages, but he says that will be reinvested into the not-for-profit arm of the business, and he also wants the removal of Sam Altman from the board.

So that's Elon Musk's side.

As for OpenAI, they say Musk knew about these plans to make money all along, and this is just a smear campaign motivated by jealousy and regret for walking away, as well as a desire to derail a competing AI company.

They also say that their non-profit arm still exists and is worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

And what is at stake here exactly?

Well, I think on one level, a lot of people will just be invested in this for the drama at the heart of it.

You know, these are huge characters who've been trading insults for years in public.

And there are also two men who, like it or not, could have huge impacts on the whole world as AI gets better.

On top of that, we're expecting diary entries, texts and emails to be read aloud in court.