Elon Musk’s lawyers claim to “do not use a computer”

Elon Musk’s lawyers He said that “does not use a computer” in a Sunday court deposit relating to his cause against Sam Altman and Openai. However, Musk has published images or referring to his laptop in X several times in recent months and public evidence suggests that he has and seems to use at least one computer.

Musk and his artificial intelligence startup Xai caused Openai in February 2024, claiming that the company committed violation of the contract by abandoning his fundamental agreement to develop artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity”, choosing instead “to maximize profits for Microsoft”.

The filing of the Sunday court was presented in opposition to an Openi on Friday deposit, which accused Musk and Xai of not fully respected the discovery process. Openai claims that the Musk consultant does not plan to collect documents from him. In the archive of this weekend, Musk’s lawyers claim to have told Openi on June 14 that they were “leading research to Mr. Musk’s cell phone, having searched his and -mail and that Mr. Musk does not use a computer”.

Musk and Xai Corp’s lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In the archive, Musk’s legal team contested the claims that was resisting the efforts of discovery.

More employees than X they say to Wired that while Musk works mainly from his mobile phone, it has occasionally been seen using a laptop.

Musk has also made public statements about computers that seems to have in the recent past. In December 2024, Musk He posted a photo of a laptop on X With a caption that begins, “this is a photo of my laptop”. The post, made in response to a flow of 15 minutes of a game of the Diablo video game series, it says He was “testing Starlink’s streaming while he was in flight”, suggesting that he was using the laptop for professional purposes. Musk has streamed more than 10 times from August 2024, showing what seems to be the game’s desktop layout, usually saying that he is doing it to test Starlink’s streaming ability.

Musk has also made more recent references to what seems to be laptop himself. In May 2025, Musk said on x That “is still using my ancient pc laptop with the @Doge sticker made a long time ago by a fan”. The post was in response to a user who asked what his game set-up was and if it is a “full game PC”. That user had responded to a different 15 -minute flow of Diablo.

The Musk image published in response shows a black laptop with aerodynamic branding, a style of computer that generally performs windows and it is popular With the players, with a sticker of an invoice in dollars modified in homage to the Memecoin “Doge”. (Memecoin later seems to have inspired the name of the so -called government efficiency department.) Musk says in the same place that the laptop is three years old and that the adhesive was given to him by a man in Germany.