Sutskever, Nadella Testify at OpenAI Trial
The Spin
Narrative A
Ilya Sutskever — the very man who tried to fire Sam Altman over mission concerns — testified under oath that a for-profit structure is absolutely necessary because frontier AI requires capital that no nonprofit can raise. Brockman's diary also showed Musk wanted total control and had OpenAI staff doing unpaid Tesla work. The evidence shows OpenAI's restructuring was driven by careful, deliberate calculations.
Narrative B
Greg Brockman's own diary entries exposed what Musk's legal team has argued all along — that OpenAI's leadership planned to cut Musk out and go for-profit while stringing him along. Brockman wrote that Musk's story would "correctly be that we weren't honest with him," which is a stunning admission. A candid self-indictment like that should give the jury serious doubts about OpenAI's integrity.
