It was a busy few weeks at the U.S. Courthouse in Oakland,
California, the venue for a high-stakes trial over one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence, OpenAI.
A crowd of people gathered outside every day,
many of them hoping to watch the contentious trial, including our colleague Angel Ao Young.
The mornings, there's usually a line outside the courthouse starting at 5.45 a.m.
The two people on opposite sides of the trial, Elon Musk and Sam Altman.
Two of the co-founders of OpenAI.
In fact, the lawsuit itself is called Musk v. Altman.
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for basically manipulating him into giving tens of millions of dollars to OpenAI.
Musk's initial funding helped get OpenAI off the ground.
And essentially, he says, OpenAI and Sam Altman as its leader misused those donations because the company
abandoned its original mission of building AI for the good of humanity.
And as the trial has unfolded over the past three weeks,
a who 's who of Silicon Valley have filed into the courthouse, headed for the witness stand.
As soon as they come into the security, all these photographers and videographers just start clamoring up against the windows
and they 're just like clicking, clicking, clicking.
And as the day goes on, protesters start showing up outside the courthouse.
Sounds like a circus a little bit.
It's a little bit like a circus.
Closing arguments for the trial happened yesterday, and a verdict could come as soon as next week.