The trial pitting two of the world's biggest tech billionaires against each other has come to an end.

The federal judge in California today dismissed a lawsuit from Elon Musk against the maker of

CHATGPT after a jury found that he exceeded the statute of limitations.

Musk claimed that OpenAI, which he co-founded, had betrayed its original mission of developing artificial

intelligence for the good of humanity when it added a for-profit arm.

OpenAI's other co-founders, including Sam Altman, said that Musk knew of the company's plans

all along. In a social media post, Musk called the verdict a, quote,

terrible precedent and vowed to appeal. For more on this, we are joined now by Garrett DeVink. He's a tech reporter for the Washington Post who covered the trial. Garrett, it's always good to see you. So you've got these two tech titans, three weeks in court, and the case gets thrown out on statute of limitations grounds. So Musk's team knew that this was going to be a hurdle. So why

bring the case anyway? Yeah, I mean, it's interesting. I mean, this definitely came up before the

trial. A lot of people were asking, wait, if this was statute of limitations, why did we even go to a

trial? And the judge, you know, ordered this trial because there was a fact, a discrepancy.

There was different opinions about when Elon Musk knew

what about Open AI's transition. And, you know, it was a bit of an open question. And a part

of the trial was definitely trying to figure out, okay, did Elon Musk know that Open AI had made

certain steps towards becoming a for-profit, towards taking on investment from outside investors.

Elon Musk said that, you know, he was kind of sort of paying attention but not really aware because

he's very busy, even saying certain documents that have been sent to him that he only read the

first page and decided not to keep going. And so that's really what the jury said. So there was a trial

here. There was a trial

saying, you know, when did he know what? And of course, we talked about a lot of other things that

did not actually come to play in the jury's decision. But yeah, we're here on Satchezer limitations.

Elon Musk says he'll appeal. So maybe we will get another run at this.

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