Musk vs. Altman: Tech CEOs head to court Monday over fate of OpenAI

Elon Musk and Sam Altman speak at the Vanity Fair New Establishment Summit at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on October 6, 2015 in San Francisco, California. Michael Kovac/ for Vanity Fair hide caption toggle caption Michael Kovac/ for Vanity Fair Two titans of the tech world will face off in court starting on Monday. Elon Musk, of Tesla and SpaceX, is suing Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, in a high-stakes clash between former partners over the future of one of the world's most influential AI companies. Musk alleges he was duped when Altman transformed OpenAI from a non-profit entity into a for-profit juggernaut. Thanks to the viral success of ChatGPT, the company now has a valuation approaching $1 trillion and is angling for a stock listing. "This is a clash of two enormous personalities in Elon Musk and Sam Altman," said Casey Newton, a long-time tech journalist and founder of the tech newsletter Platformer . "And I think what is at stake is potentially the future of OpenAI and the future development of all AI." OpenAI was established in 2015 by Musk, Altman and a handful of others as a charity that aimed to create artificial intelligence "to benefit humanity ," free from the pressures of shareholders and profit considerations. …