"Evidence that Musk was quietly trying to persuade one of OpenAI's chief rivals to help him acquire the startup could undercut the billionaire's legal claims that Altman's partnership with Microsoft Corp. betrayed the OpenAI's charity mission. The judge overseeing the legal battle previously has written that "efforts by Musk to incorporate OpenAI into Tesla or to convert it into a for-profit company are relevant because they may be inconsistent" with his claims against Altman and OpenAI."
"Musk worked with Sam Altman to found OpenAI a decade ago before going on to launch a rival startup, xAI. He has been locked in a legal skirmish with OpenAI, repeatedly trying to derail the startup's plans to restructure as a more conventional for-profit business. The billionaire filed two lawsuits against OpenAI for allegedly straying from its founding principles and asked a court to block the company's restructuring efforts."
Elon Musk sought Mark Zuckerberg as a potential financier for an unsolicited, almost $100 billion bid to buy OpenAI. Neither Zuckerberg nor Meta signed the letter of intent or participated, and OpenAI's board rejected the $97.4 billion bid in February. Musk co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman about a decade ago before founding rival xAI. Musk has filed two lawsuits alleging OpenAI strayed from its founding principles and tried to block its restructuring into a conventional for-profit. OpenAI requested the court to compel Meta to produce communications with Musk; Musk's lawyer asked the judge to bar such third-party discovery.
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