OpenAI president discloses his stake in the company is worth $30B
Greg Brockman, OpenAI Chairman and CEO Sam Altman’s top lieutenant, revealed in court Monday that his stake in the artificial intelligence company is worth nearly $30 billion.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Greg Brockman, the top lieutenant of OpenAI Chairman and CEO Sam Altman, revealed in court Monday that his stake in the artificial intelligence company is worth nearly $30 billion.
Brockman, who also said he did not personally invest money in OpenAI, was testifying Monday in the trial that focuses on the company’s founding in 2015 as a nonprofit startup primarily funded by Elon Musk before morphing into a capitalist enterprise now valued at $852 billion.
Brockman’s revelation would put him on the Forbes list of the world’s richest people, with wealth comparable to that of Melinda French Gates.
The civil lawsuit accuses Altman and Brockman of betraying Musk by straying from the San Francisco company’s founding mission to be an altruistic steward of revolutionary technology. The lawsuit alleges that they moved into a profit-making mode behind Musk’s back.
On Sunday evening, OpenAI’s lawyers attempted to admit as evidence a text message Musk sent to Brockman two days before the trial began. According to a court filing — which did not include the actual text exchange — Musk sent a message to Brockman to gauge interest in a settlement.
When Brockman responded that both sides should drop their respective claims, Musk replied, according to the filing: “By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, it will be that way.”
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is overseeing the trial, did not admit the text exchange as evidence.
