Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman again
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Billionaire Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its leadership once again, weeks after withdrawing a previous suit against the artificial intelligence startup he co-founded in 2015.
The new suit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court of Northern California revived Musks’ claims from the earlier suit that the company, along with two of his fellow co-founders, current CEO Sam Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, breached its founding mission of developing open-source artificial general intelligence (AGI) technology for humanity’s benefit. Musk departed the company’s board in 2018 after he felt it had fallen behind Google in the AI race.
Elon Musk speaks onstage during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity on June 19, 2024, in Cannes, France. (Richard Bord/WireImage / Getty Images)
“After Musk lent his name to the venture, invested significant time, tens of millions of dollars in seed capital, and recruited top AI scientists for OpenAI, Inc., Musk and the non-profit’s namesake objective were betrayed by Altman and his accomplices,” the latest complaint reads.
It alleges that once OpenAI’s technology started to transform generative artificial intelligence, Altman “flipped the narrative and proceeded to cash in.”
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OpenAI did not immediately respond to FOX Business’ request for comment.
The suit seeks a judicial determination that OpenAI’s license to Microsoft to use its AI models is null and void. Musk also contends that OpenAI’s language models are outside the scope of the company’s partnership with Microsoft.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, right, speaks as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during the OpenAI DevDay event on Nov. 6, 2023, in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images)
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OpenAI has a licensing partnership with Microsoft, under which the big tech giant invests billions of dollars into the startup in exchange for using its large language models for its computing services.
In June, Musk withdrew an earlier lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman that had accused them of abandoning the startup’s original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity rather than for profit.
Attorneys for Musk had asked the California state court to dismiss the suit, originally filed in February, without providing a reason for the move.
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In the case filed in February, Musk had said that OpenAI’s three founders had originally agreed to work on AI in a way that would “benefit humanity.”
The now-withdrawn lawsuit elicited a response from OpenAI’s executives, who wrote a blog post detailing the company’s history with Musk.
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