Jaden Schaefer

Their legal counsel said that there's no evidence the company improperly assisted OpenAI.

And then both of them have asked the court to just limit or exclude Wazan's testimony.

So this kind of economist that had that estimation, they both want Wazan's estimation thrown out, arguing that his valuation method is speculative and that it could mislead a jury.

So

There's a lot of drama going on, as you can see.

What's interesting is most recently, we know that, you know, this lawsuit's been going on for a little while, but a bunch of internal communications from OpenAI's early years, there's more than 100 documents, have all come out, including emails, text messages, and diary excerpts, which I thought was crazy.

They were able to get that in discovery.

All of that was recently unsealed as part of the litigation.

So all of those materials include exchanges between Elon Musk and OpenAI's leadership, as well as communication between Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Satya Nadella.

So some of the documents, I think, are showing sort of these like internal debates about OpenAI's governance, their funding sources and the long term direction.

The dire entries, which are attributed to Greg Brockman, show this discussion about some financial stability and leadership structure, while the emails from Elon Musk are basically expressing concern that OpenAI is going to risk falling behind competitors like Google.

So there's a bunch of other communications that show Elon Musk is advocating for partnerships with Microsoft rather than Amazon, which is ultimately what OpenAI did when they did their 2019 deal with Microsoft.

So I think all of these unsealed documents and records also have an interesting testimony from Satya Nadella, who's discussing Microsoft's investment relationship with OpenAI.

And he's also acknowledging a personal respect for Elon Musk's approach to building companies.

So right there, it's kind of.

you know, him being like happy that Elon Musk is on board.

There's some separate documents that show Elon Musk is requesting early access to NVIDIA computing hardware from Jensen Huang during OpenAI's early research phase.

So Elon Musk is going and getting, you know, the latest NVIDIA chips.

It feels like there definitely are a lot of these, you know, big players, whether that's the CEO of NVIDIA or the CEO of Microsoft, who are impressed and talking directly with Elon Musk.

He's pulling strings with them to make things happen.