Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but resigned from the company’s board of directors in 2018. (document)
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman and others, accusing them of violating a 2015 policy he helped found, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday in San Francisco. This is a contractual agreement signed by the ChatGPT manufacturer.
The lawsuit alleges that Sam Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman initially approached Elon Musk about building an open-source, nonprofit Sex company developing artificial intelligence technology for the “benefit of humanity”.
Elon Musk’s lawyers said in the lawsuit that the Microsoft-backed company violated that agreement by focusing on seeking profits.
OpenAI, Microsoft and Elon Musk did not immediately respond to Reuters’ requests for comment.
Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but resigned from the company’s board of directors in 2018. He also runs electric car maker Tesla and acquired Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion.
OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT became the world’s fastest-growing software application within six months of its launch in November 2022. It has also sparked the rollout of rival chatbots from Microsoft, Alphabet and a host of startups that have capitalized on the hype to secure billions.
Since its debut, ChatGPT has been adopted by companies for tasks ranging from summarizing documents to writing computer code, sparking a race among big tech companies to launch their own generative AI-based products.
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