While the legal battle between Elon Musk and OpenAi is scheduled to start in the spring of 2026, the OpenAi team has presented a counter -process accusing musk of sustained harassment.
OpenAI/musk dispute so far
Although the roots of the dispute date back to the end of the 2010 and the first days of OpenAi, the legal battle between Musk and OpenAi officially began in February 2024.
It was then that Elon Musk filed its original demand against Operai, claiming that the company AI had moved away from its founding mission as a non -profit organization. While that lawsuit was released later, Musk filed a revised complaint containing the same basic accusations in August 2024.
The legal team of Musk also sought a preliminary judicial order against Operai, which was destined to temporarily stop its transition to a profit model; However, this request was denied by the US district judge., Yvonne González Rogers, who instead scheduled a jury trial to begin on March 16, 2026.
In February 2025, an investment consortium led by Musk made an offer of $ 97.4 billion to buy OpenAI. The purchase was quickly rejected by the Board of Directors of Operai.
OpenAi control
Openai's countertop revolves around the alleged continuous harassment of the company's Musk. He quotes all the events mentioned above as evidence to support your claims.
The accountant says, in part: “Through press attacks, malicious campaigns that are transmitted to the more than 200 million Musk followers on the social media platform that controls, a pretextual demand for corporate records, harassing legal claims and a simulated offer for Openai assets, Musk has tested all the tools available to harm OpenAi.”
Operai is not denying its intentions to make the transition to a forklift model; The company says that it is a necessary step that will help them maintain competitiveness in the consumer's market constantly growing. However, Operai insists that he remains faithful to the original objective of developing AI for the improvement of humanity instead of focusing solely on corporate gains.
According to OpenAI, the company must complete its transition to a fork purposes at the end of 2025. Defensation of doing so would cost OpenAi a substantial portion of the $ 40 billion that the company assured during its most recent round of collection of funds.
If Musk's demand is successful, it seems that Openai will need to abandon its completely profit model, a movement that could endanger the future of the company. For now, both parties await the next trial with jury in the spring of 2026.
