Elon Musk has answered counterclaims filed by Sam Altman and OpenAI regarding the founding of the AI company, responding to 127 specific allegations, including a denial by Musk that he was "incensed" when he left the board of OpenAI in 2018 in a dispute with the other founders about control of the startup. Musk also asserted a series of affirmative defenses to the OpenAI defendants' counterclaims, including unclean hands, saying the "OpenAI Defendants engaged in inequitable conduct that violates conscience and good faith."