Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of violating the AI company's founding agreement to prioritize profits over human interests.
Founded in 2015, OpenAI is a company widely known for developing ChatGPT, an AI chatbot, and as the company's CEO, Altman is known as the father of ChatGPT.
Musk is the co-founder of OpenAI and a former member of the company's board of directors, but stepped out in 2018.
Musk filed a lawsuit with a San Francisco court on February 29, telling that when Altman and Brockman, another co-founder of OpenAI, contacted Musk with the goal of creating an open-code, non-profit company.
The lawsuit alleges that the company breached its contract by focusing on making money, and criticized it for keeping the design of its state-of-the-art artificial intelligence model, GPT-4, completely secret, and turning it into a de facto subsidiary of Microsoft.
Microsoft has invested billions of dollars in the company in partnership with OpenAI.
Long before this lawsuit, Musk had criticized OpenAI, including in March 2023 that the current form was not what I wanted at all, and in February 2024, he said that he had not accepted it many times in the past when people offered him OpenAI shares, saying that accepting them seemed immoral or illegal.
OpenAI has deviated from its original mission of developing artificial general intelligence that would be beneficial to all of humanity.
OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft makes it a closed-source company controlled by Microsoft.
OpenAI's leadership, including Altman, has a conflict of interest in the company's decision-making process.
OpenAI is required to reinstate as a non-profit organization.
OpenAI's ** and technology are required to be open source.
Ask Altman to resign as CEO of OpenAI.
OpenAI has denied Musk's accusations and said it has always been committed to developing AI technology that is beneficial to all of humanity.
OpenAI said the partnership agreement with Microsoft will help it accelerate research and development of AI technology.
The event is still in further development, and the final result will have a significant impact on the future development of OpenAI, as well as the regulation of the AI industry.