According to Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, the U.S. District Judge from California, Elon Musk failed to achieve all the required elements for a preliminary injunction.
In the same evaluation, the U.S. District Judge stated that is planning to make a further trial, which will most likely take place later this year.
As a response to this U.S. Judge's recent decision, one of Elon Musk’s lawyers, Marc Toberoff stated that they are satisfied with this decision due to the fact that the judge also offered a further trial to discuss more urgent issues.
"We look forward to a jury confirming that (OpenAI CEO Sam) Altman accepted Musk's charitable contributions knowing full well they had to be used for the public's benefit rather than his own enrichment,", Marc Toberoff stated.
Also, the U.S. judge is planning to hold this trial based on Musk’s initial claim that OpenAI’s decision to convert into a for-profit company represents an illegal move that can cause various issues.
OpenAI can cause “irreparable harm incurred when the public’s money is used to fund a non-profit’s conversion into a for-profit.”, as the initial claim states.
For quite some time now, the ChatGPT parent company, OpenAI, has been working to convert from a non-profit to a for-profit company. This transition, in the company’s vision, is necessary in order to secure the capital that is required to develop advanced artificial intelligence models.
According to different rumors, OpenAI seems to accept the temporary judge’s decision, but when asked for comments, the ChatGPT parent didn’t respond.
Initially, Elon Musk decided to file an OpenAI lawsuit last year against the company and the CEO Sam Altman, in which he stated that the company was founded with the idea of remaining a nonprofit firm focused more on developing artificial intelligence technologies that help worldwide humanity.
After some time, Musk also expanded this OpenAI lawsuit and added various feral antitrust claims along with others, to stop the ChatGPT parent’s transition. Even more so, recently, the Tesla CEO has proposed a bid to acquire the OpenAI company for $97.4 billion, an offer which the ChatGPT’s parent refused to accept.
It remains to be seen how this OpenAI lawsuit will come to an end! Stay tuned for more!
