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Elon Musk could lose his case against OpenAI — and still get what he wants

If the court evidence Elon Musk presents against OpenAI is damning enough, it could have ripple effects outside of the courtroom. | Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images So, what’s a guy got to do to become a billionaire around here? Greg Brockman scribbled the question in his diary, recently unsealed as trial evidence, just two years after co-founding OpenAI as a charity in 2015: “Financially, what will take me to $1B?” For Brockman, now OpenAI’s president, the answer was a yearslong restructuring saga in which OpenAI metamorphosed from a nonprofit research lab into a corporate behemoth on th...