Overview
- New filings show Elon Musk is pursuing $79 billion to $134 billion in damages tied to what he calls OpenAI and Microsoft’s wrongful gains.
- His expert, C. Paul Wazzan, estimates OpenAI’s gains at $65.5 billion to $109.43 billion and Microsoft’s at $13.3 billion to $25.06 billion.
- OpenAI and Microsoft moved to bar Wazzan’s testimony, calling his approach unprecedented, unverifiable, and dependent on hypothetical scenarios and xAI comparisons.
- Musk cites his $38 million in seed funding, extensive recruiting help, and early guidance as the basis for a share of value after alleging OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission.
- OpenAI criticized the claims as baseless and a harassment campaign and warned that presenting such a number would mislead jurors about recoverable relief.