Musk wants an undetermined amount of damages and a jury trial.
Elon Musk filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI on Monday, claiming that the company’s co-founders, Greg Brockman and Sam Altman, had abandoned their original goals.
The case against ChatGPT maker OpenAI is “a textbook tale of altruism versus greed,” the complaint filed in a federal court in California alleges.
“The perfidy and deceit are of Shakespearean proportions.”
Nearly two months have passed since the billionaire Tesla and SpaceX co-founder abruptly abandoned a lawsuit of a similar nature against Altman, Brockman, and OpenAI.
In the most recent complaint, Musk, who departed from San Francisco-based OpenAI in 2018, charges them with fraud, conspiracy, and false advertising.
Claiming that he had invested in OpenAI in 2015 with the idea that it would be a nonprofit, he said Altman “manipulated and deceived” him until they eventually teamed up with Microsoft, a major player in the software industry.
“Altman assured Musk that the nonprofit structure guaranteed neutrality and a focus on safety and openness for the benefit of humanity, not shareholder value,” the suit says. “But as it turns out, this was all hot-air philanthropy—the hook for Altman’s long con.”
“The resulting OpenAI network, in which Altman and Microsoft hold significant interests, was recently valued at a staggering $100 billion,” the suit says.
“As a result of their unlawful actions, defendants have been unjustly enriched to the tune of billions of dollars in value, while Musk, who co-founded their de facto for-profit start-up, has been conned along with the public.”
With the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, OpenAI captivated the public’s attention by creating a machine that could produce essays, poems, and even pass tests. The company is regarded as a leader in the industry for the picture and video generation technologies it has created.
Microsoft, a significant OpenAI investor since 2019, invested billions more in the company last year.
Additionally, the software behemoth hired CEO Altman after the OpenAI board dismissed him in November and offered to take in any employees who were upset about the decision.
With discontent mounting within the organization, the OpenAI board changed direction, reassigning Altman and swapping out many board members.
After quitting OpenAI, Musk has joined the chorus of detractors claiming that AI would mean the end of humanity.
He established xAI, his own AI company, last year.
Musk wants an undetermined amount of damages and a jury trial.
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