03/01/2024

Musk Sues OpenAI

His lawsuit accuses ChatGPT creator of abandoning its original mission

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, the artificial intelligence powerhouse he helped found, charging that the company has strayed from its original nonprofit mission of researching AI for the benefit of humanity.

In a lawsuit filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman, Musk is asking the court to block OpenAI from using its products, such as the popular large-language model ChatGPT, for "financial benefit," including in its multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft. Musk wants a court order requiring OpenAI to follow its "long-standing practice of making AI research and technology developed at OpenAI available to the public" rather than keeping it proprietary.

Musk, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla and other large companies, accuses Open AI of breaking its founding promises to develop AI for the benefit of humanity after Musk "contributed tens of millions of dollars, provided integral advice on research directions, and played a key role in recruiting world-class talent."

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