Elon Musk won a pretrial ruling Friday that bars OpenAI from questioning him about his alleged ketamine use during the upcoming jury trial over whether the AI company defrauded him by abandoning its nonprofit roots.
U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said the drug questions would be irrelevant unless OpenAI provides more concrete evidence about ketamine’s effects.
She did allow limited questioning about Musk’s attendance at Burning Man, where OpenAI’s attorneys say significant communications between the two sides took place.
Trial Starts April 28
The trial is expected to last about four weeks. The jury will decide whether OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman lied about maintaining a nonprofit structure when Musk donated $38 million in seed funding.
Musk is seeking up to $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft Corp
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