Elon Musk said he felt like a "fool" for backing OpenAI, accusing Sam Altman of abandoning the nonprofit's original mission in favor of a profit-driven model.

"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.

Elon Musk on Thursday sparred with an attorney for OpenAI during his third day of testimony in the contentious trial over the company’s pivot from nonprofit status to a for-profit venture valued at hundreds of billions of dollars.

In his second day on the stand in the trial he launched against OpenAI, Elon Musk said the AI start-up he'd helped found had strayed from its charitable mission.

CEO Elon Musk has always been championed as being pro-crypto. But a recent reported comment in a court hearing is leaving the crowd puzzled. Musk, who co-foun