By Joe Fisher 1 of 2 | The trial is underway in California on Tuesday over OpenAI’s status as a for-profit company as Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company faces a nine-person jury. File Photo by Francis Chung/UPI | License Photo April 28 (UPI) -- The trial is underway in California on Tuesday over OpenAI's status as a for-profit company as Elon Musk's lawsuit against the company faces a nine-person jury. Musk, a co-founder of OpenAI, is suing its CEO Sam Altman and president, Greg Brockman, for allegedly reversing course on keeping the company nonprofit. Musk seeks to have the company return to its nonprofit status, remove Altman and Brockman and receive $134 billion to be put back into OpenAI's nonprofit foundation. OpenAI is set to go public, potentially later this year. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, with an investment of about $44 million in its early years, he says. He left OpenAI in 2018, later creating his own AI company xAI. Related Judge strikes down Trump administration attempt to ban Anthropic A year after Musk left the company, OpenAI started a for-profit subsidiary. Last year it became a for-profit public benefit corporation. Musk says the change is a betrayal of the company's original mission and that Altman and Brockman have wrongfully profited from his investment. Microsoft is a co-defendant in the case. Musk alleges that Microsoft aided and abetted OpenAI's breach of charitable trust. OpenAI alleged in a statement that Musk is "motivated by jealousy, regret for walking away from OpenAI and a desire to derail a competing AI company." It also alleges that Musk once supported becoming a for-profit company and only left when he was denied total control. Musk may testify in the case. A trove of evidence submitted in the case includes emails, texts, call logs and other documents. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California is presiding over the case. This week in Washington President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday. Trump signed an order to expand workers' access to retirement accounts. Trump also signed legislation ending a 75-day partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security after the House voted in favor of funding. Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI | License Photo Topics