Elon Musk filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday, reviving an earlier legal effort against the giant artificial intelligence (AI) company he helped found.
The new federal lawsuit alleges that Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman violated the company’s founding principles, promising to create safe and transparent AI technology but actually doing the opposite, and “manipulating Musk into co-founding a sham non-profit venture.”
Musk’s lawyers alleged in the lawsuit that Altman perpetrated a “prolonged fraud” on the tech billionaire, describing “dishonesty and deceit of Shakespearean proportions.”
These echo claims made by Musk in a previous lawsuit against the company, which was dropped without explanation in June.
Musk’s lawyer, Mark Toberoff He told the New York Times The second attempt, a “much stronger lawsuit,” alleges that OpenAI committed fraud in violation of federal anti-fraud laws when Musk left the company in 2018.
The lawsuit also challenges Microsoft’s huge investments in its commercial subsidiaries, arguing that contracts with those companies prohibit the company from open-sourcing its technology, going against the company’s founding principles.
OpenAI has previously denied Musk’s claims, Refers to company email Shortly before Musk left the company in 2018, the company had been arguing that it should become a commercial subsidiary of Tesla.
OpenAI Executives The internal memo stated When the initial lawsuit was filed, it was suggested the allegations may have stemmed from jealousy over missing out on the company’s recent success.
In addition to his current businesses as leader of social platform X, Tesla, and space company SpaceX, Musk also owns another AI company called xAI.
