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Jury Rejects Elon Musk's USD150B OpenAI Lawsuit
(MENAFN) A US federal jury has thrown out Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and fellow executives, rejecting claims that they unlawfully profited by steering the company away from its founding nonprofit mission, multiple news outlets reported Tuesday.
Musk had accused Altman, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and other senior figures of improperly converting what was conceived as a nonprofit research organisation into a commercially driven enterprise. Court documents, as cited by news agencies, show Musk claimed to have invested $38 million in the venture and pursued $150 billion in damages, as well as the ousting of OpenAI's existing leadership. He reportedly pledged to direct any court-awarded compensation to OpenAI's nonprofit division.
The nine-member jury, delivering its ruling Monday, found that Musk had allowed the statutory filing deadline to lapse — effectively rendering the lawsuit untimely. Though the jury operated in an advisory role, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers subsequently adopted its findings as the court's official verdict and dismissed Musk's claims in their entirety.
According to OpenAI defendants, as cited by Reuters, Musk's true objective was control of OpenAI — and he had been informed as early as 2017 that the organisation would require the kind of capital that only a for-profit structure could attract.
Reuters further noted that Altman testified Musk had once demanded a 90% ownership stake in OpenAI and floated a merger between the company and his electric vehicle firm Tesla — a move Musk argued would have unlocked the substantial funding OpenAI required. OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor recalled that the company received a formal acquisition offer in February 2025 from a consortium headed by Musk's rival venture xAI — six months after Musk had filed his lawsuit.
Reacting to the verdict, Musk stood firmly by his allegations, insisting that "Altman and Brockman did in fact enrich themselves by stealing a charity."
"The only question is WHEN they did it!" he declared in a post on X, confirming his intention to appeal and branding the ruling as "incredibly destructive and creating a precedent to loot charities."
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