Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI
埃隆·马斯克与萨姆·奥特曼关于 OpenAI 未来的法庭之战实时更新
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. 萨姆·奥特曼（Sam Altman）与埃隆·马斯克（Elon Musk）正在进行一场高风险的审判，这场审判可能会改变 OpenAI 及其最知名产品 ChatGPT 的未来。2024 年，马斯克提起诉讼，指控 OpenAI 背弃了其开发造福人类的 AI 的创始使命，转而将重心转向追求利润。
The trial began with jury selection on April 27th, before Elon Musk took the stand on Tuesday as the first witness called, portraying his interest in founding OpenAI as an effort to help save humanity. 审判于 4 月 27 日开始进行陪审团遴选，随后埃隆·马斯克于周二作为首位证人出庭作证，将他创立 OpenAI 的初衷描述为拯救人类的努力。
Musk was a cofounder of OpenAI and claims that Altman and cofounder Greg Brockman tricked him into giving the company money, only to turn their backs on their original goal. However, OpenAI says that “This lawsuit has always been a baseless and jealous bid to derail a competitor” in a bid to boost Musk’s own SpaceX / xAI / X companies that have launched Grok as a competitor to ChatGPT. 马斯克是 OpenAI 的联合创始人，他声称奥特曼和另一位联合创始人格雷格·布罗克曼（Greg Brockman）诱骗他向公司注资，随后却背弃了最初的目标。然而，OpenAI 表示：“这场诉讼一直是一场毫无根据且出于嫉妒的企图，旨在阻碍竞争对手”，目的是为了提振马斯克旗下的 SpaceX、xAI 和 X 公司，这些公司已推出 Grok 作为 ChatGPT 的竞争对手。
In his lawsuit, Musk is asking for the removal of Altman and Brockman, and for OpenAI to stop operating as a public benefit corporation. Musk has also demanded that OpenAI’s nonprofit receive up to $150 billion in damages he’s asking for if he wins the case. 在诉讼中，马斯克要求罢免奥特曼和布罗克曼，并要求 OpenAI 停止以公益公司的形式运营。马斯克还要求，如果他胜诉，OpenAI 的非营利组织应获得高达 1500 亿美元的赔偿金。
Highlights / 重点摘要
Elon Musk appeared more petty than prepared 埃隆·马斯克表现得琐碎多于准备 Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I’ve seen Musk in court. During his defamation suit, he turned on the charm and the jury responded by finding him not guilty. Today he looked adrift and unprepared. The only times he showed real animation were when he was bragging about how much he’d done for OpenAI. 今天，“马斯克诉奥特曼案”的首位证人宣誓就职：埃隆·马斯克。他表现出的平淡让我感到惊讶。这不是我第一次在法庭上见到马斯克。在他之前的诽谤诉讼中，他展现了魅力，陪审团也因此裁定他无罪。但今天，他看起来心不在焉且准备不足。他唯一表现出真正活跃的时候，是在吹嘘自己为 OpenAI 做了多少贡献。
YGR scolds OpenAI for taking inconsistent positions on the origin of its name. 法官 YGR 斥责 OpenAI 在其名称起源问题上立场不一致。 “You seem to suggest OpenAI did not refer to open source,” YGR says. But that may conflict with what was said in another case. “I would suggest you talk to Quinn Emanuel and perhaps look at the prosecution history” about the origin of the name. “Do not take inconsistent positions in front of me.” “你们似乎暗示 OpenAI 并不指代开源，”法官 YGR 说道。但这可能与在另一起案件中的陈述相冲突。“我建议你们与 Quinn Emanuel（律师事务所）沟通，并查阅关于名称起源的诉讼历史，”法官补充道，“不要在我面前采取前后矛盾的立场。”
Elon Musk tells the jury that all he wants to do is save humanity 埃隆·马斯克告诉陪审团，他所做的一切只是为了拯救人类 On the stand, Elon Musk is positioning himself as a savior. In the high-profile trial between him and his fellow OpenAI co-founder, now CEO, Sam Altman, Musk opened by going through his background. He went as far back as being raised in South Africa and arriving in Canada for college with “2,500 in Canadian travelers’ checks and a bag of clothes and books,” then spent an unusually long time talking about his past, from Zip2 to PayPal to the current, more familiar slate of companies he now runs. 在证人席上，埃隆·马斯克将自己定位为救世主。在这场备受瞩目的审判中，马斯克首先回顾了自己的背景。他追溯到自己在南非的成长经历，以及带着“2500 加元旅行支票和一袋衣服与书”前往加拿大上大学的往事，随后花了异常长的时间谈论他的过去，从 Zip2 到 PayPal，再到他目前经营的那些更为人熟知的公司。
Arguments over ownership. 关于所有权的争论。 Musk and his attorney are going over emails about the equity split at OpenAI. Musk describes his cofounders’ demands for a four-way split as “unfair,” saying “it wouldn’t make sense to create a company that has an equal split — if one of the founders is also providing all the money.” He wanted a larger ownership stake that would dilute over time, he says, partly to make sure OpenAI was going in a direction he considered safe. 马斯克和他的律师正在审查关于 OpenAI 股权分配的电子邮件。马斯克称联合创始人要求四等分股权是“不公平的”，并表示：“如果其中一位创始人提供了所有资金，那么创建一个股权均等的公司是没有意义的。”他说，他想要更大的所有权份额，并随时间推移而稀释，部分原因是为了确保 OpenAI 朝着他认为安全的方向发展。
Apparently OpenAI could have had an ICO. 显然，OpenAI 本可以进行 ICO（首次代币发行）。 Musk describes various plans that the group batted around for making money at OpenAI, including a “small adjunct” for-profit and other ideas. “One of the ideas that was proposed was a cryptocoin issuance — but I was against that because it sounded kinda scammy,” Musk says. 马斯克描述了团队曾讨论过的各种 OpenAI 盈利计划，包括一个“小型附属”营利性机构和其他想法。“其中一个提议是发行加密货币——但我反对，因为那听起来有点像骗局，”马斯克说。
“I was not averse to a small for-profit,” Musk says. “我不反对小型营利性机构，”马斯克说。 Musk tells the court that “at various times we discussed, we brainstormed about different ways to fund the charity,” including a for-profit structure. “We did talk about establishing a for-profit or Tesla providing some of the funding — there were a bunch of ideas that were brainstormed — I was not averse to a small for-profit that would provide funding to the nonprofit as long as the tail didn’t wag the dog.” 马斯克告诉法庭：“我们曾在不同时期讨论并集思广益，探讨资助该慈善机构的不同方式，”包括营利性结构。“我们确实讨论过建立营利性机构，或者由特斯拉提供部分资金——当时有很多想法——只要不本末倒置，我不反对通过小型营利性机构为非营利组织提供资金。”
We’re reading emails between Musk and Jensen Huang. 我们正在阅读马斯克与黄仁勋之间的电子邮件。 Musk is trying to establish how instrumental he was to getting Huang and Nvidia to supply OpenAI with hardware. “I was asking Jensen for access to the first AI supercomputers they were making,” he says. “This was the first AI supercomputer ever developed and it would make a huge difference to OpenAI if we could get one … I wanted to be clear with Jensen that this was — I’m emailing from my Tesla email here, but I wanted to be clear this is not a Tesla request.” The conversation shows Huang promised “I will make sure OAI is one of the first ones” to get one. 马斯克试图证明他在促使黄仁勋和英伟达为 OpenAI 提供硬件方面发挥了关键作用。“我当时请求黄仁勋让我使用他们制造的第一批 AI 超级计算机，”他说。“这是有史以来开发的第一台 AI 超级计算机，如果我们能得到一台，对 OpenAI 将产生巨大影响……我想向黄仁勋明确表示——我当时是用特斯拉的邮箱发的邮件，但我必须明确这不是特斯拉的请求。”对话显示，黄仁勋承诺：“我会确保 OAI 是首批获得该设备的公司之一。”