What will the court of public opinion think about Musk’s loss against OpenAI?

Yesterday, a jury in Oakland, California, threw out Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI. Musk had sued the company for more than $150 billion in damages, claiming that its leadership had “stolen a charity” when they converted OpenAI from a nonprofit AI lab to a for-profit company. It’s a huge win for OpenAI , to be sure. Although many people will no doubt see this as a vindication of OpenAI’s bizarre corporate structure and breakneck growth, the way the case was resolved actually says almost nothing about the company’s underlying issues. Juicy revelations Throughout the long trial of Musk’s case—which took over three weeks and saw both Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman take the stand—we learned plenty of juicy things about the early days of OpenAI. We now know that OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman has made about $30 billion from his shares in OpenAI. An entry in his journal muses about “what will take me to $1B?” in the early days of the company . Manifesting, anyone? We also got to hear a l