Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, has disclosed for the first time that his stake in the ChatGPT-maker is worth almost $30 billion. He made the disclosure on the witness stand during the second week of the ongoing, high-stakes lawsuit trial involving Elon Musk and OpenAI. Brockman on Monday, April 4, testified that he had planned to donate $100,000 to OpenAI’s nonprofit arm but never made the donation. It also emerged that Brockman has deeper financial ties with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman than previously known. Musk’s lawyers argued in court that Brockman’s independence was potentially compromised by financial incentives that led him to support Altman in his bid to transition OpenAI into a for-profit company. For context, Musk’s 2024 lawsuit alleges that OpenAI’s shift to a for-profit structure betrayed ‌its ⁠original nonprofit mission to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity, and that the company’s leaders wrongfully profited from his charitable contributions.…