00:00The lawsuit pitting Elon Musk against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman kicked off in a California courtroom this week,
00:08with Musk testifying for more than seven hours over three days.
00:13Here's what we learned from the first week in court.
00:15Musk is suing the chat GPT maker Altman and others. He says they betrayed him after he gave them $38
00:23million in donations and personal help on the promise they would build a non-profit that would prioritize safe development
00:31of AI.
00:32Musk says OpenAI and Altman pivoted to create a for-profit entity to enrich themselves, and in testimony cast his
00:41lawsuit as a defense of charitable giving.
00:44OpenAI has said that Musk, who is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is driven by a compulsion to control
00:51OpenAI, and is bitter about the company's success after he left its board in 2018.
00:57Musk said that, quote, I don't think you should turn a non-profit into a for-profit, adding, there's nothing
01:04wrong with having a for-profit organization, you just can't steal a charity.
01:09The word charity doesn't appear once in the 2015 blog post announcing the formation of OpenAI, but Musk repeatedly described
01:17OpenAI as one.
01:19He also said, I was reassured by Sam Altman and others that OpenAI would continue as a non-profit, and
01:26that,
01:27I came up with the idea, the name, recruited the key people, taught them everything I know, provided all of
01:33the initial funding.
01:34He says that included recruiting Ilya Sutskiver, a top Google researcher, and using his ties to the CEOs of Microsoft
01:42and NVIDIA to get the computing power that AI demands.
01:46William Savitt, a lawyer for OpenAI, Altman and others, pressed Musk on whether he had read a term sheet that
01:53Altman forwarded, an OpenAI shift from a non-profit to a for-profit overseen by a non-profit.
02:00My testimony is, I didn't read the fine print, just the headline, Musk said.
02:06OpenAI has said it created a for-profit entity to allow it to accept private investments, to help buy computing
02:13power, and pay top scientists.
02:16Savitt's cross-examination of Musk was tense at times.
02:20Musk attacked the lawyer, saying, your questions are not simple. They're designed to trick me.
02:26On Wednesday, Savitt said their side was pleased with Musk's testimony.
02:30It is true that it's a challenge for a trial lawyer to get testimony from a reluctant witness, which is
02:36what I think we had.
02:37But I think plenty enough came through to make clear that the pieces of the evidentiary puzzle are as we
02:44have described them and not as how Mr. Musk has described them.
02:47Altman is expected to take the stand in his defense as Musk seeks $150 billion in damages from OpenAI and
02:56Microsoft, one of its largest investors, with proceeds going to OpenAI's charitable arm.
03:03Musk also wants OpenAI to revert to being a non-profit, with Altman removed from the board and the CEO
03:09job.
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