today,Tesla CEO Elon Musk issued a statement on theThe targets of the lawsuit filed by Musk this time are OpenAI and Microsoft, and the claim amount is as high as 134 billion U.S. dollars, which is equivalent to approximately 922.84 billion yuan at the current exchange rate.
The case has now entered the intense pre-trial gaming stage, and is officially scheduled to be heard on April 28, 2026.
The legal dispute has its roots in the transformation of the corporate structure of OpenAI, which was co-founded by Musk in 2015 as a nonprofit.
In 2019, it transformed into a "limited profit" structure, and later planned to reorganize into a public benefit company. Musk believed that it had abandoned its original intention of being open source and non-profit.
As the former co-founder of OpenAI, Musk invested approximately US$45 million to US$50 million in the company. In 2018, he withdrew from the board of directors due to conflicts with management over the development direction.
In 2023, Musk founded the artificial intelligence laboratory xAI, which later merged with SpaceX and became a direct competitor of OpenAI.
Musk had previously applied for a preliminary injunction to prevent OpenAI from transforming into a for-profit company.The request was denied in March 2025 by a federal judge, who ruled the case would go to a jury trial in the spring of 2026.
OpenAI denied Musk’s lawsuit, saying that its litigation was driven by commercial motives.It is a "continuous harassment mode" against the company, and said that the company's transformation is to support the high expenditure of artificial intelligence research and development.
