Why Elon Musk Is Suing OpenAI and Sam Altman

Talk me through this because he has a history with open eye. Yeah. I mean, the simple fact of the hair at that mosque is is basically alleging that this is some sort of illusory promise to all of the original backers of the project in saying that when we founded this thing, we agreed, one, this was going to be a non-profit, and as you said, for the benefit of humanity, it's going to be a really interesting process to see if there's actually any legal grounds at all for us to make that argument a

nd what his sort of end goal is here. But I would note the history that Musk has using litigation as a means to send a message, frankly, or to, you know, basically get a competitive edge, because as you know full well, he also has an interest in A.I., which to all intents and purposes, hopes to offer exactly the same thing is Openai currently does. That's what I find interesting. I mean, the fact that you have Grok, which is a competing product, I mean, one of your conversations in the past few

hours sounded like around that point. Yeah, I mean, one interesting development you might call it this morning is China. Chamath Palihapitiya posting on X saying, Wow, the discovery process in this litigation is going to be so interesting. And Musk replied on X the platform here in saying Yes, but what we might learn here as a side consequence of this suit away from its original intent, I guess, is well, what happened the weekend that Sam Altman was fired and what was at the root of open his boa

rds at that times concerned with him. But at the end of the day, you know, Openai has been pretty clear about the trajectory it's heading on that it wants to commercialise its technology. And it's it's tried in the weeks and months that follow. SAM outlines Departure to explain how the nonprofit board oversees a for profit entity and there are complications in running a5013c umbrella over the top of it. But again, I think, Katy, you and I, it's impossible for us to say, well, what is Musk really

trying to do here? What it will come down to is whether there's any legal basis in what he's he's accusing open I and Sam Altman of. Well I won't ask you to read Elon Musk's mind anymore, but just in the 30, 40 seconds I have left with you, Talk to us a little bit about open AI, because it feels like the fact that it's a nonprofit, that it has this mission for benefiting humanity. This is going to continue to be a sticking point for this company. Yeah, I mean, you know, a really interesting que

stion that some investors raised with me after we reported open AI's latest valuation rounds is why do they need to raise money? You know, why do we need to learn about the cap table Microsoft angel into half of of open eyes for profit structure. But the reality is is that they have to make money and raise money because their compute costs are so high. They've kind of put AI as a generally available product for both the consumer and also enterprise and SAS companies. And that takes a lot of infr

astructures to support and that costs a lot of money. So this will be an interesting sort of existential debate around how they can move forward long term without having a model that requires them to be for profit.