Elon Musk said in a post that “OpenAI needs to stop living a lie.”

Billionaire Elon Musk recently sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, the company behind ChatGPT, accusing them of violating a contractual agreement he entered into when he helped found the maker of ChatGPT in 2015. He claimed that they were violating the AI ​​startup’s founding mission by putting profits at its disposal. Benefit mankind. Elon Musk’s lawyers said in the lawsuit that the Microsoft-backed company violated that agreement by focusing on seeking profits. Notably, Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015 but resigned from the company’s board of directors in 2018.

Now, the head of Tesla and SpaceX says he will drop his lawsuit against OpenAI if it agrees to change its name to “‘ClosedAI’”. Musk posted on X, “Change your name to ClosedAI and I will drop the lawsuit.” He said in a subsequent post, “OpenAI needs to stop living a lie.”

Against ClosedAI and I will drop the lawsuit

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2024

In addition, he edited a photo of Sam Altam wearing a visitor ID card and added the words “ClosedAI” next to the OpenAI logo.

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2024

At the same time, the artificial intelligence company released A set of private emails with Elon Musk March 6 in response to the lawsuit. “We are sad that a man we greatly admired has come to this point, who inspired us to set higher goals, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then when we started to move forward without him They sued us at a time when we were making meaningful progress on OpenAI’s mission,” they said in a blog post.

In 2017, “We all understood that we were going to need more funding to successfully complete our mission—billions of dollars a year, far more than any of us, especially Elon, thought we could raise Non-profit organization,” they said.

Musk suggested that AI companies “use Tesla as their cash cow,” according to blogs and emails. However, when the OpenAI team refused, he “quickly chose to leave OpenAI, saying our likelihood of success was 0,” adding that he planned to build an AGI competitor within Tesla.

OpenAI added: “When he left in late February 2018, he told our team that he supported us finding our own path to raising billions of dollars.”