Musk v. Altman closing points

Today was closing arguments in Musk v. Altman case, and I’m almost mortified to write about the incredible demolition I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk’s lawyer, was upset by his words. At one point he called Greg Brockman – his opponent – Greg Altman. He incorrectly stated that Musk was not asking for money and should have been corrected by a judge. He made it clear that we’ve heard from many liars over the past few weeks, but offered little evidence for Musk’s true claims.

OpenAI’s lawyer, Sarah Eddy, countered this by simply arranging the bulk of the evidence the company introduced chronologically. He didn’t waste time trying to deceive everyone in these tests and they are trustworthy. However, he knew about the day, about Musk: “Even the mother of his children will not dispute his story.” William Savitt, who took the baton after the briefing, pointed out how many times Musk “didn’t remember” the details – and wondered how the leading businessman couldn’t understand or read the four-page document that OpenAI sent him.

I also asked myself, why are we all wasting our time here. So let’s talk about slander, which is the real crux of this case. How good was it? Here are my favorite nuggets.

Although the case was supposed to punish Altman and no doubt he has already said thatI want to focus on my takeaway here: Elon Musk’s absorption in AI.

See, Musk has said several times that OpenAI will not succeed. He tried, again and again, to kneel down and steal his researchers and one time – for Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of the group Musk was attracted to Tesla – he succeeded. But how is xAI doing? Well, it is a black hole of money which was acquired by SpaceX. I am the researchers are bleeding. One of its biggest data centers will not have xAI – there is an agreement with Anthropic instead. They can buy Cursor, in an attempt to compare the software-focused features offered by Anthropic and OpenAI. Business users of xAI, that is The US government or private companieshas been powerful weapons to use it. To the level that his Bespoke CSAM machine Grokaka MechaHitlerit works, it works because Musk messed with other people’s models.

Zilis wrote in 2018 that Brockman and Sutskever think Musk “hasn’t done his school work (on) AI/AGI and that affects them working with him.” I leave this case thinking that both liars deserve each other, but in fairness to Brockman and Sutskever, they were right about this. The question now is whether anyone considering investing in the upcoming SpaceX IPO has noticed, or even cares.