Overview
- U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers scheduled jury selection for April 27 in Oakland with a roughly four-week trial window through about May 22.
- The judge last week declined to block the case from trial and hundreds of exhibits were unsealed, including a 2023 text exchange between Musk and Altman.
- Musk alleges he was misled after contributing about $38 million, saying OpenAI abandoned its original nonprofit mission in favor of for-profit structures and a Microsoft partnership.
- OpenAI counters that Musk knew of the pivot by 2018, says its nonprofit arm retains central governance, and characterizes the suit as baseless.
- Microsoft is named as a defendant after investing billions since 2019 and becoming OpenAI’s largest shareholder following a restructuring, with a pretrial conference set for March 13.