Elon Musk Launches OpenAI Lawsuit Over ‘Shakespearean’ Deceit
Elon Musk has revved up his feud with the makers of AI chatbot and virtual assistant ChatGPT in a real live legal war that the world’s richest man is portraying as altruism versus greed.
In a lawsuit filed on Monday in federal court in Northern California, the Tesla founder is claiming that OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman have abandoned the company’s founding pledge to pioneer artificial intelligence to benefit humanity in favor of turning it into a multibillion-dollar commercial behemoth.
Musk, who founded OpenAI in 2015 with Altman and Brockman, was “betrayed by Mr. Altman and his accomplices” when they struck a lucrative deal with Microsoft, the lawsuit says, according to The New York Times. The company is now valued at $80 billion, writes the Times.