Musk, OpenAI Set to Clash in Court Over Startup’s Restructuring

  • Billionaire claims project he co-founded has abandoned mission
  • OpenAI calls the litigation ‘vexatious,’ says it lacks merit
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Elon Musk is stepping up his efforts to block OpenAI from restructuring as a for-profit company after it received billions of dollars from investors, including early funding from him.

At a court hearing Tuesday, Musk’s lawyers will urge a federal judge to halt OpenAI’s conversion plans while he tries to prove that his fellow co-founder Sam Altman abandoned their public-spirited mission of a decade ago in a quest to get rich off artificial intelligence.