Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist, took the stand Monday in Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI. Sutskever spent at least a year strategically preparing to remove Sam Altman as CEO in 2023, ultimately authoring a 52-page memo — drawing largely on information from then-CTO Mira Murati — that led to the board's decision. Yet on Monday he testified against Musk's central claim, saying OpenAI never made any special promises to remain a nonprofit, and that becoming for-profit was the consensus path forward to raise the capital needed. "If there's no funding, there is no big computer," he said. His stake in OpenAI's for-profit arm is currently worth approximately $7 billion. Sutskever said he felt "a great deal of ownership" over OpenAI and "simply didn't want it to be destroyed." He left the company in 2024 to found a competing AI lab. #OpenAI# #IlyaSutskever# #ElonMusk# #AITrial# #Tech#