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马斯克起诉奥特曼案第二周：OpenAI反击，爆料人称马斯克曾试图挖角

庭审进入第二周，埃隆·马斯克起诉OpenAI及其CEO萨姆·奥特曼的动机成为焦点。继上周马斯克出庭指控奥特曼和总裁格雷格·布罗克曼欺诈其捐款3800万美元后，本周OpenAI方面展开反击。

布罗克曼作证称，马斯克事实上曾推动OpenAI设立营利部门，并试图获得“绝对控制权”。他回忆，2017年OpenAI在游戏《Dota 2》中击败人类顶尖选手后，马斯克主动提出“是时候转向营利了”。在随后谈判中，马斯克要求多数股权、控制董事会多数席位并亲自出任CEO。当布罗克曼与首席科学家伊利亚·苏茨克弗提议均分股份时，马斯克当场拒绝，怒而离席，并带走了一幅特斯拉画作。

OpenAI法律团队指出，马斯克实因未能如愿控制公司，才起诉打压竞争对手xAI。马斯克的律师则试图揭露布罗克曼的“贪婪”，当庭展示其电子日记，其中提及“什么能让我赚到10亿美元”。布罗克曼辩称“服务使命始终是首要动机”。

关键证人、前OpenAI董事会成员、马斯克四个孩子的母亲希冯·齐利斯出庭，证实马斯克曾试图挖角奥特曼，让其领导特斯拉新AI实验室。齐利斯还透露，2018年马斯克曾对她表示：“如果我专注于特斯拉AI，OpenAI很难成气候。”她承认对两人均有效忠，但“忠于对人类最有利的AI结局”。

前CTO米拉·穆拉蒂和前董事会成员海伦·托纳的视频证词也于本周播放，提及2023年短暂解雇奥特曼事件，称因其“习惯性说谎”而无法信任。

本周，法庭外出现了反对AI竞赛的抗议者合唱，而马斯克则在庭审期间向布罗克曼发短信威胁：“这周末结束，你和萨姆将成为全美最憎恨的人。”

案件结果可能影响OpenAI的IPO进程（目前估值近1万亿美元），而马斯克的xAI已整合进SpaceX，预计最早于6月上市，目标估值1.75万亿美元。

下周，苏茨克弗与微软CEO萨提亚·纳德拉将出庭作证，随后双方进行结案陈词，陪审团将给出建议性裁决。

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马斯克诉奥特曼案第二周：OpenAI反击，齐利斯透露马斯克曾试图挖角阿尔特曼
OpenAI总裁格雷格·布罗克曼表示，埃隆·马斯克曾希望公司设立营利实体——而他的日记内容也因此被公开审视。
在埃隆·马斯克与OpenAI这场具有里程碑意义案件的第二周，马斯克提起诉讼的动机成为焦点。
上周，马斯克出庭作证，指控OpenAI首席执行官山姆·阿尔特曼和总裁格雷格·布罗克曼欺骗他，让他向公司捐赠了3800万美元。他声称，两人曾承诺维持OpenAI作为致力于开发有益于人类的人工智能的非营利组织，但随后却接受了微软数十亿美元的投资，并重组公司以运营营利性子公司。
本周，布罗克曼从自己的角度予以回击，辩称实际上是马斯克推动OpenAI设立营利部门，并为了获得“绝对控制权”而进行了激烈斗争。OpenAI认为，马斯克提起诉讼是因为他的要求未能得到满足，现在试图打压他自己的人工智能公司xAI的竞争对手。
OpenAI前董事会成员、马斯克四个孩子的母亲希冯·齐利斯也出庭作证，透露马斯克曾试图挖角OpenAI首席执行官山姆·阿尔特曼，让他领导其电动汽车公司特斯拉的新人工智能实验室。
马斯克于2015年与阿尔特曼、布罗克曼等人共同创立了OpenAI，但在2018年离开。如今，他要求法院免除阿尔特曼和布罗克曼的职务，并撤销OpenAI去年进行的重组——该重组将其营利性子公司转变为公益公司。他还要求OpenAI及其投资者微软赔偿高达1340亿美元的损失。
此案的审判结果可能会颠覆OpenAI以接近1万亿美元估值进行首次公开募股的进程。与此同时，马斯克于2023年创立的xAI，现已成为其火箭公司SpaceX的一个部门；合并后的公司也预计最早于今年6月上市，目标估值为1.75万亿美元。
周一，布罗克曼身着蓝色西装、系着领带，牵着妻子安娜·布罗克曼的手走进法庭。在证人席上，回忆起OpenAI的早期岁月时，他显得平静，甚至有些兴高采烈。但在接受马斯克律师史蒂文·莫洛充满激情的盘问时，他变得激动起来。阿尔特曼默默地听着，而安娜·布罗克曼坐在他身后，显得有些坐立不安。法庭外，抗议人工智能竞赛的示威者们唱着赞美诗，声音盖过了正在召开新闻发布会的律师们。
据布罗克曼称，审判开始前两天，马斯克给他发信息，问他是否有兴趣和解。当布罗克曼建议双方都放弃各自的主张时，马斯克回复短信说：“到本周末，你和山姆将成为全美最令人憎恨的人。如果你坚持，那就走着瞧。”
马斯克带着一幅特斯拉画作愤然离去
上周，马斯克作证称，他提起诉讼是为了维护OpenAI安全开发人工智能的非营利使命，但他也表示，愿意看到OpenAI成为一家由微软进行适度投资的利润上限公司。
本周，布罗克曼告诉陪审团，马斯克从未真正致力于维持OpenAI的非营利性质。2017年夏天，当OpenAI构建的人工智能模型在电子游戏《Dota 2》中击败了世界顶尖玩家时，马斯克在他位于旧金山附近的“鬼屋”举办了一场聚会。布罗克曼回忆说，房子里撒满了五彩纸屑和杯子，当时马斯克的女友、女演员艾梅柏·希尔德为大家倒威士忌。
布罗克曼告诉陪审团，马斯克在一封电子邮件中写道：“是时候让OpenAI迈出下一步了。这是一个触发事件。”——而几周前他曾表示，如果OpenAI取得重大的公开成就，那将是“创建营利实体的时候了”。
布罗克曼说，在接下来的六周里，马斯克和其他联合创始人就创建营利实体进行了激烈讨论，以便筹集足够资金构建通用人工智能——一种能在大多数认知任务上与人类竞争的强大人工智能。布罗克曼称，马斯克希望在该实体中拥有多数股权，并有权选择大多数董事会成员。他还想担任其首席执行官。
布罗克曼作证称，2017年8月，他和其他联合创始人聚在一起，敲定了营利结构的条款。OpenAI时任首席科学家伊利亚·苏茨克维带来了一幅特斯拉的画作，作为“善意的象征”，以回报马斯克几天前送给他们的特斯拉汽车。布罗克曼告诉陪审团：“感觉有点像是（马斯克）在讨好我们，对吧，他想让我们觉得欠他人情。”
布罗克曼说，当他和苏茨克维提议大家都拥有同等股份时，马斯克陷入了沉默，最终说道：“我不同意。”然后，马斯克站起来，“猛地绕过桌子”，他说。“我当时真的以为他要打我。”马斯克抓起那幅画走了出去。
布罗克曼说，之后他纠结于是否继续与马斯克共同打造OpenAI，还是分道扬镳。“我们来到了一个岔路口，”他说。“我们是接受埃隆的条件？还是拒绝条件，让他退出自己单干，然后我们也自己干？”
“我们绝对不能接受的是，将通用人工智能的、可能是单方面的、绝对的掌控权交到他手里，”布罗克曼告诉陪审团。
布罗克曼当时在想什么？
莫洛用他戏剧性的男中音辩称，布罗克曼的动机是贪婪，而不是对OpenAI开发有益于人类的人工智能这一非营利使命的承诺。他指出，虽然布罗克曼从未向公司投资过一分钱，但他现在拥有的股份价值接近300亿美元。
“为使命而奋斗一直是我的主要动力，”布罗克曼反驳莫洛对他的描述时说道。“至今依然如此。”
莫洛在法庭屏幕上调出了布罗克曼的电子日记，试图向陪审团展示布罗克曼在幕后的真实想法。2017年，在与马斯克就营利实体的条款进行谈判时，布罗克曼写下了关于想成为亿万富翁的内容：“从财务上说，什么能让我达到10亿美元？”
“你为什么没有拿着那290亿美元，把它捐给你负有信托责任、为了人类福祉的那个非营利组织呢？”莫洛提高嗓门问布罗克曼，以此戏剧化地表达对布罗克曼个人获益的道德愤慨。
随后，莫洛调出了布罗克曼在2017年11月写的一篇日记，当时他正为是否在没有马斯克的情况下将OpenAI转变为营利机构而纠结：“在没有他的情况下，从他那里窃取非营利组织（的想法）是错误的。在没有他的情况下将其转变为公益公司，那将是道德上极其败坏的做法。”布罗克曼和马斯克此前曾考虑过创建一家公益公司，这是一种追求社会使命的营利性公司。
布罗克曼解释说：“我的意思是，这实际上会有助于完成使命，但会让人难以面对自己。”
莫洛还试图通过透露布罗克曼持有多家与OpenAI有业务往来的公司的股份来削弱其可信度，这些公司包括人工智能公司Cerebras、云提供商CoreWeave以及核聚变初创公司Helion Energy。阿尔特曼曾试图引导OpenAI与他投资的公司（包括Helion和火箭制造商Stoke Space）进行交易，这引发了对其潜在利益冲突的关注。
OpenAI前首席技术官米拉·穆拉蒂和前董事会成员海伦·托纳都通过视频方式提供了证词。她们谈及2023年阿尔特曼被短暂解雇一事，称由于阿尔特曼据称有撒谎的历史，她们无法信任他。穆拉蒂当时与阿尔特曼互发的短信作为证据被提交，显示了他当时拼命想了解发生了什么并重新获得控制权的努力。
马斯克谋划在特斯拉建立竞争性AI实验室
在布罗克曼作证两天后，2023年离开OpenAI董事会的希冯·齐利斯身穿黑色夹克和黑色牛仔裤出庭作证，她看起来很镇定，但略带一丝紧张。OpenAI的律师莎拉·埃迪用一种看似柔和的声音问她，在马斯克试图挖角OpenAI的联合创始人到特斯拉内部的新人工智能实验室工作时，她是否充当了马斯克的中间人。埃迪辩称，马斯克起诉OpenAI只是为了在人工智能竞赛中打压竞争对手。
齐利斯说，她在2016年作为非正式顾问在OpenAI工作时遇到了马斯克，他们有过一次“偶然的”浪漫邂逅。2017年，她加入了特斯拉和马斯克的脑植入公司Neuralink。2020年，她加入了OpenAI董事会。她通过试管婴儿技术怀上了马斯克的孩子，但直到2022年《商业内幕》报道此事后，她才向OpenAI透露她与马斯克的关系。
据一封发给齐利斯的电子邮件显示，到了2017年12月，由于创建营利实体的谈判陷入僵局，马斯克断定OpenAI不太可能构建通用人工智能，于是转向在特斯拉建立一个人工智能实验室。
埃迪调出了一份常见问题解答文件草稿，齐利斯在2017年将其通过电子邮件发给了特斯拉的一位同事，内容是关于该公司在NeurIPS人工智能大会上组织的一场活动：“此次活动的目的是分享特斯拉正在建立一个世界领先的人工智能实验室(?)的消息，该实验室将与谷歌/DeepMind和Facebook AI Research等机构相抗衡。”
齐利斯告诉陪审团，当马斯克仍在OpenAI董事会时，他曾试图招募阿尔特曼领导这个潜在的人工智能实验室。根据齐利斯的一条短信，马斯克曾要求他招募到特斯拉工作的OpenAI研究科学家安德烈·卡帕西，“列出一份可以挖角的OpenAI核心人员名单”。
“如果我专注于特斯拉的人工智能，OpenAI很难成为一股严肃的力量，”马斯克在2018年即将离开OpenAI前给齐利斯发短信说。特斯拉的人工智能实验室最终未能实现。
埃迪问齐利斯，当她同时为OpenAI和马斯克工作时，她对谁忠诚。“我效忠于人工智能为人类带来最佳结果，”齐利斯告诉陪审团。
下周会发生什么？
下周，伊利亚·苏茨克维和微软首席执行官萨提亚·纳德拉将出庭作证。马斯克和OpenAI的律师将进行结案陈词。陪审团将在之后的一周开始审议，并给出咨询性裁决，以指导法官对此案作出判决。
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Musk v. Altman week 2: OpenAI fires back, and Shivon Zilis reveals that Musk tried to poach Sam Altman
OpenAI president Greg Brockman said Elon Musk wanted the company to create a for-profit entity—and endured a public peek into his diary.
In the second week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk’s motivations for bringing the suit were under scrutiny.
Last week, Musk took the stand, alleging that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into donating $38 million to the company. He claimed that they’d promised to maintain it as a nonprofit dedicated to developing AI for the benefit of humanity, only to later accept billions of dollars of investment from Microsoft and restructure the company to operate a for-profit subsidiary.
This week, Brockman fired back with his side of the story, arguing that Musk had actually pushed for OpenAI to create a for-profit arm and fought a bitter battle to have “absolute control” over it. OpenAI has argued that Musk is suing because he didn’t get his way and is now trying to undermine a competitor to his own AI company, xAI.
Shivon Zilis, a former OpenAI board member and the mother of four of Musk’s children, also testified, revealing that Musk tried to recruit OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to lead a new AI lab at his electric-car company, Tesla.
Musk cofounded OpenAI in 2015 with Altman, Brockman, and others but left in 2018. Now, he’s asking the court to remove Altman and Brockman from their roles and to unwind the restructuring OpenAI undertook last year, which converted its for-profit subsidiary into a public benefit corporation. He is also seeking as much as $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, OpenAI’s investor.
The outcome of the trial could upend OpenAI’s race toward an IPO at a valuation approaching $1 trillion. Meanwhile, xAI, which Musk founded in 2023, is now a division of his rocket company, SpaceX; the combined companies are also expected to go public as early as June, at a target valuation of $1.75 trillion.
On Monday, Brockman walked into the courtroom in a blue suit and tie, holding hands with his wife, Anna Brockman. On the stand, he was serene, even chipper, as he recalled OpenAI’s early days. But he grew agitated under impassioned questioning from Elon Musk’s lawyer, Steven Molo. Altman listened in silence, while Anna Brockman sat behind him, fidgeting. Outside the courthouse, protesters rallying against the AI race sang hymns over the voices of lawyers giving press conferences.
Two days before trial began, according to Brockman, Musk messaged him to ask if he would be interested in settling. When Brockman suggested that both sides drop their claims, Musk texted back: “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be.”
Musk stormed out with a Tesla painting
Last week, Musk testified that he’s suing to save OpenAI’s nonprofit mission to develop AI safely, but he said he was open to seeing OpenAI become a capped-profit company with moderate investments from Microsoft.
This week, Brockman told the jury that Musk was never truly committed to keeping OpenAI a nonprofit. In the summer of 2017, when an AI model that OpenAI built beat the world’s best players in a video game called Dota 2, Musk hosted a gathering at his “Haunted Mansion” near San Francisco. The house was splattered with confetti and cups, Brockman recalled, and the actress Amber Heard, who was Musk’s girlfriend at the time, served whiskey.
“Time to make the next step for OpenAI. This is the triggering event,” Musk wrote in an email—having said weeks earlier that if OpenAI made a major public achievement, it would be “time to create a for-profit,” Brockman told the jury.
Over the next six weeks, Brockman said, Musk and the other cofounders had intense discussions about creating a for-profit entity to raise enough capital to build artificial general intelligence—powerful AI that can compete with humans on most cognitive tasks. Musk wanted to have majority equity in the entity and the right to choose a majority of the board members. He also wanted to be its CEO, said Brockman.
Brockman testified that in August 2017, he and other cofounders gathered to hash out the terms of the for-profit structure. Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist at the time, arrived bearing a painting of a Tesla as a “token of goodwill” in return for the actual Teslas Musk had given them days earlier. “It felt a little bit like [Musk] was buttering us up, right,that he wanted us to feel indebted to him,” Brockman told the jury.
When Brockman and Sutskever proposed that they all have equal shares of equity, said Brockman, Musk fell silent and finally said, “I decline.” Musk then stood up and “stormed around the table,” he said. “I actually thought he was going to hit me.” Musk grabbed the painting and walked out.
Brockman said that afterwards he struggled to decide whether to continue building OpenAI with Musk or break away. “There was a fork in the road,” he said. “Do we accept Elon’s terms? Or do we reject the terms, he quits to create his own, and then we create our own?”
“The one thing we could not accept was to hand him unilateral, absolute control, potentially, over the AGI,” Brockman told the jury.
What was Brockman thinking?
In his theatrical baritone, Molo argued that Brockman was motivated by greed rather than a commitment to OpenAI’s nonprofit mission to develop AI that benefits humanity. He noted that while Brockman never invested money in the company, he now owns a stake worth close to $30 billion.
“Solving for the mission has always been my primary motivation,” Brockman said, pushing back on Molo’s characterization of him. “It remains so today.”
Molo pulled up Brockman’s electronic journal on a screen in the courtroom, trying to show the jury what Brockman was really thinking behind the scenes. In 2017, while negotiating with Musk over the terms of a for-profit entity, Brockman wrote about wanting to become a billionaire: “Financially, what will take me to $1B?”
“Why didn’t you take the $29 billion and donate it to the nonprofit that you had a fiduciary duty to, for the good of humanity?” Molo asked Brockman, raising his voice to dramatize moral indignation at Brockman's personal gain.
Molo then pulled up a journal entry Brockman had written in November 2017, while he was torn over whether to turn OpenAI into a for-profit without Musk: “it’d be wrong to steal the nonprofit from him. to convert to a b-corp without him. that’d be pretty morally bankrupt.” Brockman and Musk had previously considered creating a b-corp, which is a for-profit company that pursues a social mission.
Brockman explained, “I meant it would actually serve the mission, but it’d be hard to look at yourself in the mirror.”
Molo also tried to undermine Brockman’s credibility by revealing that he holds a stake in multiple companies with business ties to OpenAI, including the AI company Cerebras, the cloud provider CoreWeave, and the nuclear fusion startup Helion Energy. Altman has tried to steer OpenAI into deals with companies that he invests in, including Helion and the rocket maker Stoke Space, drawing scrutiny over potential conflicts of interest.
Former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati and former OpenAI board member Helen Toner both appeared in video depositions. They addressed the brief firing of Altman in 2023, saying that they could not trust him because of his alleged history of lying. Murati’s text messages with Altman from that time, which were introduced as evidence, revealed his desperate attempts to understand what was happening and regain control.
Musk plotted a rival AI lab at Tesla
After Brockman’s two days of testimony, Shivon Zilis, who left OpenAI’s board in 2023, took the stand in a black jacket and black jeans, appearing composed but with a flicker of nerves. OpenAI’s lawyer Sarah Eddy asked her in a deceptively soothing voice whether she acted as a conduit for Musk as he tried to poach OpenAI’s cofounders to work at a new AI lab within Tesla. Eddy argued that Musk is suing OpenAI only to undermine a competitor in the AI race.
Zilis said she met Musk while working at OpenAI as an informal advisor in 2016, and that they had a “one-off” romantic encounter. In 2017, she joined Tesla and Musk’s brain-implant company, Neuralink. In 2020, she joined OpenAI’s board of directors. She became pregnant with Musk’s children through IVF but did not disclose her ties with Musk to OpenAI until Business Insider reported them in 2022.
By December 2017, with negotiations over creating a for-profit entity stalled, Musk had concluded that OpenAI was unlikely to build AGI and pivoted to building an AI lab at Tesla, according to an email sent to Zilis.
Eddy pulled up a draft of an FAQ document that Zilis emailed a colleague at Tesla in 2017 about an event the company was organizing at the NeurIPS AI conference: “The purpose of this event is to share that Tesla is building a world leading AI lab(?) which will rival the likes of Google/DeepMind and Facebook AI Research.”
Zilis told the jury that when Musk was still on OpenAI’s board, he tried to recruit Altman to lead that prospective AI lab. Musk had asked Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI research scientist he’d recruited to work at Tesla, “to send a list of top OpenAI people to poach,” according to a text message by Zilis.
“There is little chance of OpenAI being a serious force if I focus on TeslaAI,” Musk texted Zilis in 2018, just before he left OpenAI. Tesla’s AI lab never came to fruition.
Eddy asked Zilis whom she was loyal to when she was working for both OpenAI and Musk. “I had an allegiance to the best outcome for AI for humanity,” Zilis told the jury.
What’s going on next week?
Next week, Ilya Sutskever and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella will testify. The lawyers for both Musk and OpenAI will deliver their closing arguments. The jury will begin deliberating the week after and deliver an advisory verdict guiding the judge to decide the case.
This story is part of MIT Technology Review’s ongoing coverage of the Musk v. Altman trial. Follow @techreview or @michelletomkim on X for up-to-the-minute reporting.
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