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On October 25, 2026, in his latest Forbes interview, Musk publicly responded directly for the first time to the lawsuit with OpenAI, saying that OpenAI's shift from a nonprofit to a fully for-profit entity is setting an extremely dangerous precedent. He mentioned that when the parties reached a compromise back then, they agreed that once AGI was achieved, equity and control must be returned to the nonprofit organization, but this return clause was unilaterally deleted; he believes that if this matter can be escaped without consequence, existing charitable donation contracts will lose their foundation. The interview video is about two minutes long. There are currently no subsequent factual developments.
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Musk on the OpenAI lawsuit: converting from nonprofit to for-profit sets a dangerous precedent
In his latest Forbes interview, Musk publicly responded directly for the first time to the lawsuit with OpenAI, saying that OpenAI's shift from a nonprofit to a fully for-profit entity is setting an extremely dangerous precedent. He mentioned that when the parties reached a compromise back then, they agreed that once AGI was achieved, equity and control must be returned to the nonprofit organization, but this return clause was unilaterally deleted; he believes that if this matter can be gotten away with, existing charitable donation contracts will lose their foundation. The interview video is about two minutes long.