Elon Musk put OpenAI on trial—and xAI ended up exposed.

California jury dismissed all charges, finding that Musk missed the three-year statute of limitations to file suit.

Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI and its leaders, a jury in Oakland, California, decided on Monday. A lawsuit he filed was barred by the statute of limitations, the jury found after about 90 minutes of deliberation.

Elon Musk took too long to file his lawsuit that accused OpenAI of stealing a charity, a nine-person jury unanimously decided Monday. Musk sued OpenAI in 2024 for making a “fool” out of him after Musk donated $38 million to kick-start OpenAI as a nonprofit,

OpenAI’s march towards an estimated $1 trillion IPO picked up pace today with a California jury today unanimously rejecting Elon Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit over the direction of OpenAI. Accusing OpenAI CEO Sam Altman of “stealing a charity” and “unjustly enriching” himself by shifting the tech powerhouse to a for-profit company,

It took a jury less than two hours to decide that Mr. Musk had waited too long to sue. But the testimony over three weeks was still illuminating.

A lawsuit filed by Musk against Altman and OpenAI has been thrown out by a jury—a decision that the Tesla founder has vowed to appeal.