Ilya Sutskever discloses $7bn OpenAI stake during Musk-OpenAI litigation
The former OpenAI chief scientist, who now runs Safe Superintelligence, gave the figure under oath. It places him among the largest individual shareholders in the company.
Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI who now runs Safe Superintelligence Inc., disclosed during testimony in the Musk-OpenAI litigation on Monday that his ownership stake in OpenAI is worth approximately $7bn, Reuters and other outlets reported.
The disclosure makes Sutskever one of the largest individual shareholders in OpenAI, alongside Sam Altman and a small number of early backers. Sutskever was a co-founder of OpenAI and one of the company’s most cited researchers before leaving in May 2024 amid the boardroom dispute that briefly removed Altman as CEO.
Sutskever’s testimony came as part of Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI. The case challenges OpenAI’s transition from a non-profit research entity to a capped-profit-and-commercial structure and asks the court to revisit the corporate-governance arrangements...
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