Musk has lost! Lost to a calendar? The dust of the 'Great Lawsuit of the Century' has settled, but OpenAI has been stripped of its underwear On May 18th, US time, the biggest New Year's Eve drama in the technology industry finally reached a cold ending. A California federal court judge has officially ruled to dismiss all allegations made by Musk against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Ultraman. The most ironic thing is that the nine member jury only entered the deliberation room for two hours and gave a unanimous verdict. The judge and jury did not even rule on whether Ultraman betrayed his non-profit intentions and stole charitable organizations, but instead mercilessly kicked Musk out with the most basic details of calendar technology. How did the underlying logic lose in this long-standing grudge that concerns trillions of assets and shocks the entire Silicon Valley? What shocking revelations did the three week trial uncover? Where did Musk lose? Musk filed a lawsuit in 2024, accusing Ultraman of betraying the original non-profit contract and turning a charitable organization originally dedicated to the public interest into a business empire worth hundreds of billions of dollars. He even requested the court to compel OpenAI and Microsoft to hand over profits of up to $134 billion. But OpenAI's legal team delivered a fatal blow in court: the statute of limitations has expired. According to the law, the statute of limitations for claims against charitable trusts is usually only two to three years. OpenAI lawyers have shown Musk's personal text messages from years ago, proving that he was very clear and actively promoting OpenAI's profitable transformation as early as 2017, when Musk even proposed to control 90% of the equity himself. The logic of the jury is simple: you not only knew about it back then, but also wanted to take the lead. However, you left angrily because you didn't gain control. Seeing ChatGPT go viral and make a lot of money now, you came to sue in 2024. This' sour grape 'mentality has already exceeded the legal limit. 2. The trial has become a "makeup remover oil" Although OpenAI won the lawsuit, this showdown was like a powerful makeup remover, completely stripping away all the turmoil and awkward details within the world's hottest AI company: Firstly, the trust crisis of Sam Ultraman has been thoroughly confirmed. Musk's lawyer pointed out that five witnesses swore in court that Ultraman was a "fraud". Even when Ultraman himself was asked in court whether he was completely trustworthy, he couldn't give a definite answer. Secondly, the executive diary exposed astonishing obsession with money. OpenAI President Brockmann's personal diary was publicly released in court, with one entry prominently stating, "Financially, what can make me reach $1 billion?" As the trial progressed, it was discovered that Brockmann's stake in OpenAI was now worth nearly $30 billion. Former Chief Scientist Ilya confirmed that his equity value is approximately $7 billion. Thirdly, it is a blow to Musk's IQ in terms of dimensionality reduction. During his testimony, Brockman mercilessly retorted, "Listen, Musk understands rockets and electric cars, but he doesn't understand AI at all 3. The trillion dollar capital race behind it Why is the verdict so urgent? Because these two men are staging an almost crazy IPO race in the capital market, with a life and death speed: OpenAI is pushing ahead with its initial public offering at full speed, with a valuation target of $1 trillion. In March of this year, it just completed the largest $122 billion financing in Silicon Valley history with a valuation of over $850 billion. The judge's ruling is equivalent to directly helping OpenAI remove the biggest time bomb on its head before going public. On the other track, Musk's SpaceX is also not to be outdone. SpaceX secretly submitted its IPO application in April, with a combined valuation of up to $1.25 trillion. Its prospectus is highly likely to be released this week. Lost the lawsuit, won the public opinion? After the verdict was announced, Musk unleashed all his firepower on X, angrily rebuking the presiding judge as a "radical judge" and accusing her of only using the jury as a fig leaf. Musk lamented that this ruling has created a "free license to plunder charitable organizations" and will have a devastating impact on charitable donations in the United States. When Musk's lawyer walked out of the courtroom, he only left two words coldly to the media: "Appeal This has caused a huge shock and complete fragmentation in Silicon Valley. The supporters of commercialization believe that developing AGI requires billions of dollars in funding, and that a non-profit structure is simply a utopia, so capitalization is inevitable; The side that insists on its original intention laments that this means that in the future, all non-profit public interests can be heavily embedded in the shell of business and executive wealth. Musk still has the trump card to play in the next phase of the monopoly allegations against Microsoft and OpenAI. This is the largest and most resentful war in the history of the technology industry, and it is far from the end of the drama.