Elizabeth Lopatto
We are back from a break.
Sam Altman did not return, but our first witness has been called: Elon Musk.
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Richard Lawler
“Microsoft unlocked with OpenAI a virtuous cycle.”
According to Microsoft’s lawyer Russell Cohen, making his opening argument in Musk v. Altman, saying that each round of funding (including across the events of November 2023) provided more resources, which produced better research and better models that justified further investment.
Similar to Savitt, Cohen closed by saying that Musk only raised claims about the deal after ChatGPT and OpenAI became successful, and he launched xAI as a competitor.
Jay Peters
Framework now offers Nvidia’s new 12GB RTX 5070 laptop GPU for the Laptop 16.
Buying it on its own from Framework, the GPU costs $1,199.00 — a $500 jump from the 8GB variant, which costs $699.00. As part of a full laptop order, the gap between them is $500, too.
Nvidia announced the new GPU earlier today as a way to “maximize memory availability.”
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Cameron Faulkner
Jay Peters
Netflix has a new party game where you match GIFs with captions.
It looks very Jackbox-like — though if you want to play some actual Jackbox games on Netflix, that’s an option, too.
Richard Lawler
“[Musk] demanded control, he demanded the ability to make all the decisions without regard to the other founders.”
According to Altman’s lawyer, William Savitt. Continuing his opening argument, Savitt brought up an email from OpenAI scientist Ilya Sutskever around the time Musk’s quarterly donations ended.
It said, “The current structure provides you with a path where you end up with unilateral absolute control over the AGI,” which apparently upset Musk to the point that he “literally” grabbed his stuff and stormed out.
Cameron Faulkner
Richard Lawler
OpenAI: Musk’s lawsuit is a “pageant of hypocrisy.”
The lawyers representing Sam Altman and OpenAI are not mincing words when it comes to Musk’s claims in their opening argument, saying that we’re only here “because Mr. Musk didn’t get his way at OpenAI.”
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