War of the Giants. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and the company’s “greedy” bosses

Elon Musk was an investor and co-founder of OpenAI in 2015 – he donated one billion dollars to the company. In 2018, he left the project and founded his own artificial intelligence company, xAI. In a complaint filed on Thursday in a California state court, Musk alleges that the partnership with Microsoft violates OpenAI’s founding statute, which constitutes a breach of contract, according to .

Elon Musk wants a trial and makes strong allegations

Elon Musk is demanding a jury trial and demanding that Sam Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman return the profits made by the company. Both managers previously allegedly convinced Musk that the company would operate on an open source and non-profit basis. However, according to Musk, OpenAI has abandoned the original idea that artificial intelligence would support humanity. Instead, we are dealing with products and cooperation with Microsoft, from which the company makes money. Musk also wants the court to order OpenAI to release the software’s source codes and to prohibit the use of the GPT-4 language model for commercial purposes by OpenAI, Microsoft, and others. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman’s company has not yet commented on Musk’s allegations.

Elon Musk: Greedy OpenAI bosses

“One thing is clear to Mr. Musk and the public at large: OpenAI has abandoned its non-profit mission in the pursuit of profit,” the complaint reads. Moreover, it states that OpenAI has actually become a subsidiary of Microsoft. Interestingly, CNN emphasizes that although Microsoft was not sued by Musk, the name of this company appears in the complaint as many as 68 times. “Under new management, the company is not only growing, but actually improving AGI [ogólna sztuczna inteligencja – red]”so as to maximize profits for Microsoft,” are the allegations of Elon Musk, who in his complaint described the current heads of OpenAI as greedy.