Elon Musk could lose his case against OpenAI — and still get what he wants

Photo: Elon Musk in the Oval Office – Friday, May 30, 2025. Photo credit: Official White House photo by Molly Riley via Flickr. US government work. Article by Sara Herschander. Vox – May 8, 2026.

So, what’s a guy got to do to become a billionaire around here? Greg Brockman scribbled the question in his diary, recently unsealed as trial evidence, just two years after co-founding OpenAI as a charity in 2015: “Financially, what will take me to $1B?” For Brockman, now OpenAI’s president, the answer was a yearslong restructuring saga in which OpenAI metamorphosed from a nonprofit research lab into a corporate behemoth on the verge of a massive public offering. Elon Musk, another co-founder who left OpenAI in 2018, is suing OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and executives like Brockman for this transformation, […]

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