Musk vs OpenAI Trial Set for April 27: Battle Over AI's Future and Profit

• The trial in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Samuel Altman, and Microsoft is scheduled to begin on April 27.
• Musk alleges OpenAI abandoned its original nonprofit, public-benefit mission, turning into a lucrative for-profit entity linked with Microsoft.
• He claims Altman deceived him by proposing a nonprofit to counter Google's DeepMind and keep AI open source for humanity.
• The lawsuit states OpenAI's leaders restructured the organization, created for-profit affiliates, and made multibillion-dollar deals, violating its initial mission.
• Musk, an original co-founder and major funder of OpenAI in 2015, left in 2018 before the release of ChatGPT and later launched rival xAI.

Why It Matters: Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a betrayal of its nonprofit mission, heads to trial on April 27.