Musk v. Altman Comes Down to Credibility: California Brief

Musk v. Altman Boils Down to Believability

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I can’t say there’s been a smoking-gun document, text message, or legal contract presented so far in the trial of Musk v. Altman. Instead, the last two weeks of testimony have cast the case as a battle over character and credibility. Should we trust Elon Musk or Sam Altman to tell the history of OpenAI, the scrappy nonprofit turned trillion-dollar behemoth?

“This trial, like many trials, boils down to who the jurors are going to believe,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said last week.

The case has revisited OpenAI’s founding years and its ...