Elon Musk wants courts to force OpenAI to auction off a large ownership stake
A lawyer for Elon Musk has called on the California and Delaware attorneys general to force OpenAI to auction off a large stake in its business, intensifying a bitter fight with the companyβs chief executive Sam Altman.
In a letter to the statesβ top law officers seen by the Financial Times, Muskβs attorney Marc Toberoff said he was writing on behalf of big artificial intelligence investors who wanted to participate in an open and competitive bidding process for the OpenAI stake.
OpenAI had no plans for such an auction, according to a person with knowledge of the ChatGPT-makerβs thinking. Muskβs camp simply βwant more chaos,β they added.