April 6 (Reuters) - OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) urged the California and Delaware attorneys general to consider investigating Elon Musk and his associates' "improper ‌and anti-competitive behavior", ahead of a trial between the ‌two sides set to begin this month.

Musk sued OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman ​and others in 2024, accusing them of violating OpenAI's founding mission as it restructures to a for-profit entity. Musk was a cofounder of OpenAI in 2015 but left in 2018 and launched rival ‌xAI with its competitor ⁠chatbot Grok.

In a court filing in August, OpenAI had said Musk tried to enlist rival Mark ⁠Zuckerberg for the bid that his consortium made for OpenAI early last year, but the CEO of Meta Platforms did not come ​on board.

On ​Monday, the ChatGPT maker sent ​a letter to California Attorney ‌General Rob Bonta and Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings, saying the lawsuit sought damages of more than $100 billion from its nonprofit foundation, which it said would effectively cripple the organization.

A judge in Oakland, California, ruled in January that a jury will hear ‌the trial, expected to start in ​April.

OpenAI's chief strategy officer Jason Kwon ​said in the letter ​sent on Monday that the lawsuit could undermine ‌the company's efforts to ensure that ​artificial general intelligence, ​or AGI, benefits all of humanity.

Musk's filings in the litigation "suggest that your offices did not thoroughly investigate OpenAI's plan ​to recapitalize and ‌merely relied on promises about what OpenAI will do in ​the future," Kwon said.

(Reporting by Harshita Mary Varghese in ​Bengaluru; Editing by Leroy Leo)