--- title: Silicon Valley’s messiest breakup is definitely headed... description: A federal judge rejected OpenAI and Microsoft's attempts to dismiss Elon Musk's lawsuit, setting a jury trial for late April. Musk alleges his former partners... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/silicon-valley-s-messiest-breakup-is-definitely-headed-to-court-b9hflzc2h twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Silicon Valley’s messiest breakup is definitely headed to court | daily.dev og:description: A federal judge rejected OpenAI and Microsoft's attempts to dismiss Elon Musk's lawsuit, setting a jury trial for late April. Musk alleges his former partners... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/silicon-valley-s-messiest-breakup-is-definitely-headed-to-court-b9hflzc2h og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/b9HfLzc2h.png og:image:alt: Silicon Valley’s messiest breakup is definitely headed to court og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Silicon Valley’s messiest breakup is definitely headed to court **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A federal judge rejected OpenAI and Microsoft's attempts to dismiss Elon Musk's lawsuit, setting a jury trial for late April. Musk alleges his former partners at OpenAI betrayed the nonprofit's original mission by accepting billions from Microsoft and restructuring as a for-profit entity. The jury will decide whether OpenAI broke its nonprofit commitments and whether Microsoft knowingly assisted in breaking those promises. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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