Elon Musk’s legal professionals claimed that he “doesn’t use a pc” in a Sunday court docket submitting associated to his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. Nonetheless, Musk has posted photos or referred to his laptop computer on X a number of instances in latest months, and public proof means that he owns and seems to make use of at the least one laptop.
Musk and his synthetic intelligence startup xAI sued OpenAI in February 2024, alleging the company committed breach of contract by abandoning its founding settlement to develop AI “for the good thing about humanity,” selecting as a substitute “to maximise earnings for Microsoft.”
The Sunday court docket submitting was submitted in opposition to a Friday submitting from OpenAI, which accused Musk and xAI of failing to completely adjust to the invention course of. OpenAI alleges that Musk’s counsel doesn’t plan to gather any paperwork from him. On this weekend’s submitting, Musk’s legal professionals declare that they informed OpenAI on June 14 that they had been “conducting searches of Mr. Musk’s cell phone, having searched his emails, and that Mr. Musk doesn’t use a pc.”
Musk and xAI Corp’s legal professionals didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. Within the submitting, Musk’s authorized workforce disputed claims that it was resisting discovery efforts.
A number of workers at X inform WIRED that whereas Musk primarily works from his cell phone, he has sometimes been seen utilizing a laptop computer.
Musk has additionally made public statements about computer systems he seems to personal within the latest previous. In December 2024, Musk posted a picture of a laptop on X with a caption that begins, “This can be a pic of my laptop computer.” The publish, made in reply to a 15-minute stream of a recreation from the Diablo online game sequence, claims that he was “testing Starlink streaming whereas in flight,” suggesting that he was probably utilizing the laptop computer for skilled functions. Musk has streamed greater than 10 instances since August 2024, displaying what seems to be the desktop format of the sport, normally saying that he’s doing so to check Starlink’s streaming capability.
Musk has additionally made newer references to what seems to be the identical laptop computer. In Might 2025, Musk said on X that he’s “Nonetheless utilizing my historical PC laptop computer with the @DOGE sticker made way back by a fan.” The publish was in reply to a person who requested what his gaming set-up is and whether or not it’s a “full gaming PC.” That person had been replying to a special 15-minute stream of Diablo.
The image Musk posted in reply exhibits a black laptop computer with AERO branding, a mode of laptop that sometimes runs Home windows and is popular with players, with a sticker of a greenback invoice edited in homage to the memecoin “Doge.” (The memecoin later seems to have impressed the title of the so-called Division of Authorities Effectivity.) Musk says in the identical publish that the laptop computer is three years previous, and that the sticker was given to him by a person in Germany.
