Elon Musk is suing OpenAI – the company that developed and commercialized ChatGPT – and Sam Altman, CEO of today's most popular artificial intelligence company, accusing him of abandoning the company's original mission, which was to developing AI products for people, not for profits. The court document was filed by Musk on Thursday evening and states that when Altman and OpenAI's other co-founder, Greg Brockman, approached Musk, they did so about founding a nonprofit open source company. Now, Musk claims that OpenAI violates the first contract signed by the three co-founders, according to which the company should have been non-profit, born with the promise that it would be an organization that would make its technology “freely available.” ” to the public. Which did not happen, Musk claims in the lawsuit, given that the development of ChatGPT 4 would then take place in great secrecy.
Musk among the founders of OpenAI
Musk, in fact, was among the first founders of the company which saw its birth in 2015. In 2018, the owner of Tesla estimated that OpenAI – owned by Microsoft since the end of 2023 – had lost too much ground to Google in the field of artificial intelligence. It is for this reason that he suggests to the other members, including Sam Altman, to acquire the company and run it personally. Faced with the refusal of the rest of the investors, the owner of Tesla chose to leave, which today seems to have been a serious mistake, at least from an economic point of view, given that OpenAI, with the 13 billion paid by Microsoft for purchase, has become the most profitable artificial intelligence company in the world. Last November, Musk announced the arrival of Grok, a rival language model to ChatGPT that counts X (formerly Twitter) among the top news sources.
“OpenAI has become a branch of Microsoft”
“In reality, however, OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a de facto subsidiary closed source of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft”, accuses the lawsuit seen by Technological crisis. “Under the leadership of its new board of directors, it is not just about developing, but perfecting generative artificial intelligence in order to maximize Microsoft's profits, rather than for the benefit of humanity,” adds the trial. Still according to the legal document, Musk donated more than $44 million to OpenAI between 2016 and September 2020. Figures that, during the first years of the company's life, made him the largest contributor of 'OpenAI.
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