Call it a uncommon win for Elon Musk. The world’s richest man, whose enterprise empire has lately taken a beating, has lengthy pursued a vendetta in opposition to Sam Altman, boss of OpenAI. In latest months Mr Musk, who helped discovered the artificial-intelligence (AI) lab however left in 2018, has sought to dam its proposed conversion right into a for-profit firm via varied strategies, together with an unsolicited (and unsuccessful) $97bn bid for the belongings of the non-profit entity that controls it.