Sam Altman and Open AI are sued by Elon Musk for altering the company’s purpose.
Elon Musk has sued OpenAi, the firm that created ChatGPT, and its co-founders, Greg Brockman and Sam Altman, for converting the business into a for-profit endeavor.
The goal of OpenAI, according to Musk, who co-founded the business and was among its early funders, is to be a non-profit that develops AI for the good of humanity.
The CEO of Tesla asserts that he was persuaded to assist in founding and funding the firm in 2015 by Altman and Brockman on the grounds that it would be a non-profit organization dedicated to fending against Google’s threat of competition.
The complaint claims that OpenAI was obligated under the founding agreement to make its technology “freely available” to the general public.
Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI
The lawsuit, which was submitted late on Thursday to a San Francisco court, claims that OpenAI, the most valuable AI startup in the world, changed to a for-profit business model with an emphasis on commercializing its AGI research after joining forces with Microsoft, the most valuable company in the world, which has contributed roughly $13 billion to the startup.
OpenAI, Inc. has, in effect, become a de facto closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, the biggest technological firm in the world.
Instead than creating an AGI for the good of humanity, under its new board, it is not only creating but also honing one in order to maximize profits for Microsoft. According to the lawsuit, this constituted a flagrant betrayal of the Founding Agreement.
In September 2020, Musk gave the non-profit more than $44 million, according to the lawsuit. According to the lawsuit, he was OpenAI’s biggest contributor for the first few years.
Elon Musk had expressed dissatisfaction with OpenAI’s lack of focus on his platform, X, almost a year prior.
“OpenAI was founded as an open source—hence the term “Open” AI—non-profit organization to act as a check on Google. However, it is currently a closed source, maximally profitable enterprise that is essentially under Microsoft’s control.Not at all what I had in mind.
Things to be aware about
In 2018, Musk stepped down from the board of OpenAI and gave up his ownership in the business. Musk called ChatGPT “scary good” when it first released in December 2022 and said, “We are not far from dangerously strong AI.”
As it started to focus on making money, Open AI released a premium edition of ChatGPT in February of last year. Users must pay $20 a month for ChatGPT Plus subscription.
The service’s monetization began concurrently with a research report indicating that, as of January 2023, the AI tool had an estimated 100 million monthly active users, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history.
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