Musk, OpenAI Set to Clash in Court Over Startup’s Restructuring

Elon Musk is stepping up his efforts to block OpenAI from restructuring as a for-profit company after it received billions of dollars from investors, including early funding from him.

At a court hearing Tuesday, Musk’s lawyers will urge a federal judge to halt OpenAI’s conversion plans while he tries to prove that his fellow co-founder Sam Altman abandoned their public-spirited mission of a decade ago in a quest to get rich off artificial intelligence.

The injunction Musk is seeking could freeze OpenAI’s transformation to a more conventional, public benefit for-profit company, just as it’s in talks to raise as much ...