Brockman Defends $30B Stake in OpenAI Trial

OpenAI President Greg Brockman testified in a landmark trial that his stake in the company is worth nearly $30 billion, a figure Elon Musk's lawsuit cites as proof OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission for profit. Brockman defended the fortune, saying compensation was secondary to the mission and calling OpenAI the most well-capitalized nonprofit in history. Musk's lawyers compared Brockman to a bank robber and accused him of funneling money from the nonprofit to its for-profit arm. OpenAI's attorneys countered by revealing Musk sent pre-trial texts threatening that Brockman and Altman would become the most hated men in America, arguing Musk's true motive was suppressing a competitor to his own AI firm xAI.