Musk v. Altman Closing Arguments

The arguments concluded today Musk v. Altman Trial, I almost feel bad writing about the amazing demolition derby I just witnessed. Musk’s lawyer, Stephen Mollo, faltered at his words. At some point he called Greg Brockman – his co-defendant – Greg Altman. He wrongly claimed that Musk wasn’t asking for money and should be corrected by a judge. He made it clear that we’ve heard from many liars over the past few weeks, but he offered little evidence to support Musk’s actual legal claims.

OpenAI lawyer Sarah Eddy responded by arranging the mountain of evidence presented by the company in chronological order. She didn’t spend time trying to pretend that anyone in this trial was particularly reliable. However, I understood today’s news about Musk: “Even the mother of his children can’t back up his story.” William Savitt, who took the defendant’s baton after her presentation, pointed out how often Musk “didn’t remember” some important detail — and wondered how a sophisticated businessman couldn’t understand or read a four-page term sheet that OpenAI sent him.

I found myself wondering again, why we were all wasting our time here. So let’s discuss gossip, which is the real goal of this trial. How good was it? Here are my favorite nuggets.

While this trial was intended to punish Altman and It can be said alreadyI’d like to focus on what I’m going to say here: Elon Musk is bad at AI.

Look, Musk has said multiple times that OpenAI won’t work. He repeatedly tried to derail it and steal away its researchers, and in one case he succeeded — that of Andrei Karpathy, a founding member of the team who was lured into Tesla. But how is xAI doing? Well, it is The black hole of money Acquired by SpaceX. that it Bleeding researchers. One of its massive data centers will not be occupied by xAI technology — There’s a deal with Anthropic instead. He – she may buy the index, In an effort to match the programming-focused products introduced by Anthropic and OpenAI. xAI enterprise users, whether that is United States Government or Private companiesIt’s done Strongly armed In using it. So much so that Grok custom CSAM machinealso known as MikahtlerIt seems to work because Musk distilled other people’s models.

Zellis wrote in 2018 Brockman and Sutskever thought Musk “didn’t really do his homework[on]AI and AGI, and that’s what worries them about working with him.” I’ll leave this trial thinking that all these liars deserve each other, but in fairness to Brockman and Sutskever, they were absolutely right about this one. The question now is whether anyone thinking of investing in SpaceX’s upcoming IPO has noticed or cared.