Tech Desk 
Mar 16, 2025
Elon Musk gestures as he attends Viva Technology conference at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023. —Reuters
In a dramatic turn of events surrounding OpenAI's recent move to become a for-profit entity and Elon Musk making legal moves to foil it, both parties have agreed to expedite the trial lodged by Musk.
Citing a court filing from the US District Court for the Northern District of California, Reuters reported that the ChatGPT maker and the tech billionaire have postponed the decision as to whether the final verdict will be delivered by a jury or solely by the judge.
The development follows a US judge rejecting Musk's plea to bring to a halt the artificial intelligence (AI) group's conversion to a for-profit model. However, the judge agreed to an expedited trial in the autumn.
"We welcome the court's March 4 decision rejecting Elon Musk's latest attempt to slow down OpenAI for his personal benefit," OpenAI said in a blog post on Friday.
OpenAI, the AI giant firm, was co-founded by Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in 2015, with Musk parting ways shortly before the company rose to popularity. In 2023, Musk established the AI firm xAI, his take on rival ChatGPT.
Being the CEO of Tesla and having the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) under his ownership, Musk sued OpenAI late last year for derailing off its primary objective: developing AI to help humanity instead of securing corporate gains.
