Elon Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI

In the lawsuit, the American billionaire said that in 2015, he became a co-founder of OpenAI after receiving an invitation to participate in establishing a non-profit laboratory to develop artificial intelligence "for the benefit of humanity." type" by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and OpenAI co-founders. In 2018, he declared "AI could be more dangerous than nuclear weapons" and left the board.

In 2019, OpenAI decided to call for capital and raised one billion USD from Microsoft. OpenAI not only gets cash, but also gets to use Microsoft's infrastructure and cloud platform. The two have collaborated to build supercomputers that train huge and popular models such as ChatGPT and Dall-E.

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In the lawsuit, Musk's lawyers said that OpenAI violated the original contract when establishing the company by focusing on making money. And OpenAI has "completely kept secret" the most advanced AI model, GPT-4.

The lawsuit emphasizes that OpenAI is helping to maximize profits for Microsoft while they still claim to develop AGI to serve the benefit of humanity. OpenAI violated the agreement when they approached Musk. Musk's lawsuit aims to force OpenAI to comply with the agreements and return to its mission of developing AGI for the benefit of humanity.

The lawsuit has pushed two of the world's most famous technology leaders into a new state of tension. Before that, both of them continuously gave conflicting opinions about the future of AI.

Musk has continuously warned about the dangers of AI to humanity after ChatGPT launched and shocked the world in November 2022. At the end of April 2023, he also signed a petition calling on global companies and organizations to stop the super AI race for six months to work together to build a common set of rules on AI.

However, according to Business Insider, he also founded the xAI company in March 2023 and bought 10,000 Nvidia graphics cards to operate it.

Kareem Winters

Update 04 March 2024