It's Musk versus Open AI, and everyone is watching.

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Stephanie Hughes.

Back in 2015, Elon Musk and Sam Altman got the idea to start a non-profit AI lab.

The goal was to develop artificial general intelligence to benefit all humanity.

The lab would also make its technology open source, so they called it open AI.

That's according to a complaint filed by Elon Musk, who has since

parted ways with the organization. He is now suing OpenAI, its CEO, Sam Altman, and its president

Greg Brockman, saying they have abandoned the founding principles of the organization in pursuit

of profits. They are currently facing off in federal court in the Northern District of California.

Poreshda Veil of Wired has been in the courtroom.

I asked him what the core of Musk case is.

Musk is saying that there was a charitable trust that existed.

This agreement when he made donations totaling eventually around $38 million

over several years, that there was this implicit agreement that it would further a nonprofit

that would develop AI research for the benefit of humanity and that no, you know, individual would benefit from this

nonprofit. And in turn, he says OpenAI has a for-profit entity. A nonprofit is still in control,

but it has this for-profit entity that actually holds all the intellectual property, all the technology, all the

employees. And there are people who have become very wealthy as a result of open AI, at least on,

in many cases, paper. And Elon says that that is not what he intended. And his donations were

abused. People were unjustly enriched, and that

was very concerning to him. Well, how has the Open AI team responded to Musk's allegations?

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