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>>modele+(OP)
In what capacity is Musk suing OpenAI? Musk may have co-founded the company, but then he left (to avoid any potential future conflict of interest with his role as CEO of Tesla, as Tesla was increasingly becoming an AI-intensive company). Is he a shareholder, if not what gives him any say in the future of the company?

>>breadw+2J
Breach of contract seems to be the major one - from https://www.scribd.com/document/709742948/Musk-vs-OpenAI page 34 has the prayers for relief. B and C seem insane to me, I don't see how a court could decide that. On the other hand, compelling specific performance based on continual reaffirmations of the founding agreement (page 15)...seems viable at a glance. Musk is presumably a party to several relevant contracts, and given his investment and efforts, I could see this going somewhere. (Even if his motivations are in fact to ding Microsoft / spite Altman).

IANAL

>>wyantb+SW
The "reaffirmations" referred to on page 15 don't mean anything. Altman merely said he was "enthusiastic" about the nonprofit structure, not that he was limiting OpenAI to it. And notably, the "I" is that quote is bracketed, meaning that Altman did not actually say "I" in his response to Musk (in legal documents, brackets in quotes mean that the quote has been altered between the brackets). Furthermore, despite the headline to that section claiming "repeat" reaffirmations, based on the facts as presented by Musk's own lawyers, Altman only potentially reaffirms the nonprofit structure once...

And the other individuals aren't even quoted, which is strong evidence that they didn't actually say anything even remotely in support of "reaffirming" the nonprofit structure (especially given that his lawyers were heavy handed with including quotes when they could be even remotely construed in favor of Musk's position) and that Musk is unilaterally characterizing whatever they actually said to support his claims, however reasonable or unreasonable that may be.

Due to the money at stake, and given that both Musk and Altman have serious credibility issues that would make a trial outcome impossible to predict, I expect this to be settled by giving Musk a bunch of stock in the for-profit entity to make shut up.