Meta objected to OpenAI’s initial subpoena in July; the ChatGPT-maker’s lawyers are now also looking for a court order to receive such evidence. OpenAI is at the same time asking the court for any of Meta’s documents and communication that might be related to “any actual or potential restructuring or recapitalization of OpenAI”, reported TechCrunch.
Andy Stone, a Meta spokesperson, highlighted a section from OpenAI’s filing, which reflected that neither Meta nor Zuckerberg signed Musk’s letter of intent to acquire the ChatGPT maker.
Also worth mentioning is the fact that OpenAI’s fight with Musk, Meta has significantly invested in its own efforts to develop frontier AI models. In 2023, Meta executives had made many efforts to develop an AI model that had the potential to beat OpenAI’s GPT-4. At the beginning of 2025, Meta’s AI models had fallen behind the industry standard.
This fallback has also been noticeable as Zuckerberg has been trying to lure in several of OpenAI’s leading AI researchers, among whom there has also been Shengjia Zhao, one of the co-creators of ChatGPT. Shengjia Zhao is now one of the leads on the research efforts happening on the newest AI unit, Meta Superintelligence Labs.
More so, Meta also invested $14billion in Scale AI and reportedly approached several other AI labs about acquisition deals.
The filing also disclosed on Thursday that it is a larger part of the lawsuit filed by Musk against OpenAI that takes issue with OpenAI’s conversion of its for-profit arm into a public benefit corporation.
TechCrunch also reported that lawyers representing Meta asked the court to reject OpenAI’s request for evidence.
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