India, May 20 -- OpenAI began in 2015 as a nonprofit promising safe, open-source AI for the public good, backed by Elon Musk and others.

Over time it created a capped-profit arm, took massive Microsoft investment, restricted model access, and reorganized into a public benefit corporation.

These actions have raised doubts about whether its humanity-first charter still meaningfully constrains its commercial ambitions.

On Monday, a nine-member federal jury in Oakland, California took less than two hours to dismiss Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman.

Crucially, the jury did not rule on the core claims of the case. These included whether OpenAI, the company behind the popular artificial intelligence (AI) ...