A high-stakes jury trial starting April 27th could force OpenAI's restructuring, remove Altman, and award $150B in damages.
Elon Musk's 2024 lawsuit against OpenAI goes to trial with jury selection beginning April 27th. Musk alleges OpenAI abandoned its nonprofit mission to benefit humanity in favor of profit, and claims he was misled into donating funds. He's seeking removal of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, blocking OpenAI's public benefit corporation conversion, and up to $150B in damages payable to OpenAI's nonprofit. OpenAI calls the suit a competitive attack designed to benefit Musk's own AI venture, xAI.
This trial doesn't change OpenAI's APIs today, but a forced restructuring or leadership removal could create real API access disruption, pricing upheaval, or product discontinuation. Developers deeply coupled to OpenAI's stack face the highest risk if the trial produces an injunction or operational freeze. The Grok API is already live and priced competitively — this is the moment to test a fallback.
Run a side-by-side latency and output quality test between OpenAI's GPT-4o API and xAI's Grok API on your top 3 most-used prompts — benchmark before this trial forces the decision on you.
Install both SDKs: pip install openai and pip install xai-sdk (or use xAI's REST API directly at api.x.ai)
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