By Deepa Seetharaman and Jonathan Stempel
OAKLAND, California, May 5 (Reuters) -OpenAI's president testified on Tuesday that Elon Musk supported transforming theartificial intelligencestartup into a for-profit company, but wanted full control in part to help him raise $80 billion to colonize Mars.
The testimony by Greg Brockman came in the second week of a trial in California that could determine the future of OpenAI, which sparked a widespread craze over generative artificial intelligence after launching its ChatGPT chatbot in late 2022.
OpenAI plans to spend $50 billion on computing resources in 2026, Brockman said in court.
Musk accused OpenAI and Chief Executive Sam Altman of conning him into giving $38 million to the nonprofit, only to see it abandon its charitable goals and become a for-profit company to enrich themselves.
The world's richest person is seeking $150 billion in damages to be paid to the nonprofit, and for Altman and Brockman to be removed from their leadership roles. Musk left OpenAI's board in February 2018.
MUSK WANTED FULL CONTROL, BROCKMAN TESTIFIES
In his second day of testimony, Brockman said that in 2017 Musk had wanted OpenAI to change its corporate structure because it was too hard for a nonprofit to raise the amount of money OpenAI required to build advanced AI models.
Brockman said theTeslaand SpaceX founder made clear that he wanted to become OpenAI's leader if that happened.
Altman was the only other candidate, Brockman said.
Source: Drudge Report
