Jury Rules Against Musk’s Lawsuit Targeting OpenAI

(MENAFN) A federal jury in Oakland, California delivered a unanimous blow to Elon Musk on Monday, ruling against him in his lawsuit targeting OpenAI — finding that his claims had been filed too late under the statute of limitations, according to U.S. media reports.

U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers accepted the advisory jury's verdict, closing the courtroom chapter of a legal battle that had drawn intense scrutiny from the tech world.

Court records from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California confirm the case was initiated in 2024. In it, Musk alleged that OpenAI and its leadership — including CEO Sam Altman — had abandoned the company's original nonprofit mission, pivoting instead toward profit at the expense of the public good.

OpenAI and its co-defendants pushed back forcefully, arguing that Musk had been fully aware of the company's structural evolution for years and had simply waited too long to mount a legal challenge.

The lawsuit traces back to OpenAI's origins: the company was established in 2015, with Musk among its founding members. He departed in 2018. In the years that followed, OpenAI surged to global prominence on the back of products like ChatGPT and cemented a high-profile strategic partnership with Microsoft — a trajectory Musk argued strayed far from the company's founding ideals.

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