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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

Elon Musk's lawsuit could be the least of OpenAI's problems—its planned conversion will cost a fortune

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (Credit: Win McNamee—Getty Images)

A good rule of thumb in life is to never get on the bad side of a litigation-happy centibillionaire with a Rolodex of law firms at his beck and call. 

But Elon Musk’s second lawsuit against OpenAI, to whom he made charitable donations amounting in total to more than $50 million, may be the least of its immediate concerns. There is one authority that still has greater resources at its fingertips than the man tipped to be the world’s first trillionaire — the government. 

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