Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its director Sam Altman, accusing the company of “fundamentally deviating from its original mission” by putting profit over humanity.
Musk’s lawsuitThe court, filed late Thursday in California Superior Court, said OpenAI’s certificate of incorporation states that its activities are “in the public interest” and “not organized for the private benefit of any person.” It is pointed out that it is written that “it is not even a thing”.
Nevertheless, OpenAI, under a new board of directors formed in November after Mr. Altman was briefly ousted as CEO, is now “serving the best interests of Microsoft, not the good of humanity.” The lawsuit alleges that
Proving OpenAI’s deep ties to tech giants, the complaint alleges that in November, as the drama was unfolding, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella publicly said, “It wouldn’t matter if OpenAI disappeared tomorrow.” I was pointing out the comment you made.
Microsoft’s Nadella explained that the company “has all the intellectual property rights and all the functionality” to keep OpenAI’s technology up and running. This includes the fourth and most advanced version of ChatGPT, GPT-4, whose internal design “remains completely secret, except for the following,” Musk claims. OpenAI, and Microsoft for information and belief,” the complaint states.
The lawsuit comes amid an escalating conflict between OpenAI and Musk’s own artificial intelligence startup xAI.
On Thursday, the Post reported that xAI, the company behind the insidious Grok chatbot, is aiming to raise billions of dollars in a private funding round in the coming weeks, potentially valuing it at $20 billion. It was reported that there is a sex. OpenAI has raised more than $11 billion to date, and a recent secondary stake sale values the company at more than $80 billion.
Musk, 52, joined OpenAI’s founding team in 2015, when the AI company was launched as an open source alternative to giants like Google, which had acquired DeepMind the year before, along with Altman and former PayPal chief executive. He was joined by CEO Peter Thiel and others.
Musk and Altman were reportedly friends at the time, but according to Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk, Altman led OpenAI into a partnership with Microsoft and a move away from its pure nonprofit roots. It is said that their friendship ended after he showed this.
Although OpenAI is reportedly still governed by a non-profit organization, the company has a for-profit arm and its notable investors include Microsoft, with the company offering It has pledged $13 billion to the company.
As part of the deal, Microsoft received a 49% stake in OpenAI’s commercial revenue, according to the Wall Street Journal.
When Altman, 38, returned as OpenAI’s CEO less than two weeks after stepping down, it was part of an agreement that eliminated the previous five-person board of directors.
Former Twitter Chairman Brett Taylor, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo were appointed to the new nine-member board in November. The members, Musk claimed in the lawsuit, were “hand-picked by Altman and blessed by Microsoft.”
“I brought this lawsuit to force OpenAI to comply with its founding agreement and return to its mission of developing AGI,” Musk added in court documents. [artificial general intelligence] Not for the benefit of individual defendants or the world’s largest technology companies, but for the benefit of humanity. ”
The court filing, which seeks a jury trial and a court order requiring OpenAI to continue to honor its promise to serve the public’s interests, not Microsoft’s, was previously reported. bloomberg.
Musk’s legal advisers at Irell & Manella LLP and representatives from OpenAI did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief has since been one of the most outspoken about AI’s risks to humanity.
Musk, the world’s richest man with a $215 billion fortune, has repeatedly warned that AI “could destroy civilization.”
Last year, the billionaire called on governments to develop clear safety guardrails for AI, warning that unrestricted development of the technology poses a potential existential threat to humanity.
However, Musk is still working on a venture called xAI that boasts a chatbot powered by a proprietary ChatGPT-style AI called Grok.
Grok stands out for what Musk has described as a “rebellious streak,” with the chatbot spouting responses laced with sarcasm and humor.
However, his rival Altman denounced Groch’s work as “creepy boomer humor.”
