Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross

It's certainly a unique management style, but a very effective one.

To say the least, I would note, again, looming in the background is the OpenAI IPO.

And if I were on the defense, I'd probably be thinking about

where this settles.

And it would seem to me, again, third party observer, I don't have a stake in either side.

I would assume that part of one of the opportunities for convergence would be granting some sort of equity stake on the cap table for Elon in an ultimate IPO, which my understanding is he doesn't have.

And maybe that's where convergence and some sort of ultimate pre or post trial settlement option lies.

I'll maybe register a note of sympathy for the defendants in this case.

I think creating, pioneering a model for a research lab such as OpenAI, which again was responsible for this enormous, probably saving us from a present recession at this point, and certainly accelerating

the course of the singularity by at least a few years, perhaps many more.

I'm very sympathetic to the defendants from a corporate governance perspective.

It wasn't necessarily obvious in the early days of OpenAI that, say, a public benefit corporation was the natural corporate structure.

They iterated their way toward discovering that

generalist large language models were how we got AGI and then turning that into a business model that could afford the capitalization to build out a scale out.

Like all of this, they backed into.

I think if they knew what they knew now, putting Elon and his investment aside, in the early days of OpenAI, it would have been structured very differently.

So I, for one, am sympathetic to the defendants that history isn't always clean.

It isn't always the case that everyone knows ahead of time.

exactly the right governance structure for what ultimately is going to turn the world upside down.

But I would say to their credit, they ultimately have iterated their way in compliance with state authorities, as best I understand it, toward a more modern governance structure that reflects the revolutionary company that they are.