U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland, California said she is prepared to expedite a trial on the issue of conversion to later this year. OpenAI, Microsoft and Musk did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment. Last year, Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, saying that OpenAI’s founders originally approached him to fund a nonprofit focused on developing artificial intelligence to benefit humanity, but that it is now focused on making money.