Musk’s Lawyer Pushes OpenAI’s Brockman to Give Back $29 Billion

May 4, 2026, 8:43 PM UTC

OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman testified that his stake in the startup is now worth almost $30 billion, prompting an attorney for Elon Musk to ask why he had not donated the bulk of his earnings to the ChatGPT maker’s nonprofit foundation.

After Brockman disclosed his stake in OpenAI — which makes him one of the largest individual shareholders in the company — attorney Steven Molo grilled him over a 2017 entry in his personal journal in which he wrote: “Financially, what will take me to $1B?”

The private notes have been presented by Musk’s legal team as key ...

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