A federal judge on Wednesday indicated a jury will be allowed to decide whether artificial intelligence trailblazer OpenAI hoodwinked its billionaire co-founder Elon Musk during its evolution from a nonprofit research lab into a capitalistic enterprise now valued at $500 billion.

Last week, thousands of pages of evidence from the case were unsealed, including partial 2025 depositions of most of the key players involved, including Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Mira Murati, and Satya Nadella, along with ex-board members Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley — both of whom played key roles in the 2023 firing of Altman.

OpenAI says Elon Musk supported a for-profit structure as early as 2017 but later quit after failing to secure full control, accusing him of cherry-picking internal records in a lawsuit that now threatens the company's future and its ties to Microsoft.

Musk's odds of winning the OpenAI lawsuit rise to 67% as filings reveal early for-profit considerations by OpenAI leaders.

If the legal team representing OpenAI underestimated one of Elon Musk’s lawyers handling his lawsuit because of his side gig, they’re not laughing anymore.