Musk Drops Suit Against OpenAI, Co-Founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk decided Tuesday to dismiss his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, after claiming they failed to fulfill the company’s founding mission to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity.

Musk’s lawyer submitted the request for dismissing the case “without prejudice” in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday, without providing further justification for the move.

The lawsuit, filed in February by OpenAI co-founder Musk, alleged that Altman and the AI ​​company “set fire to” their founding agreement by partnering with Microsoft.

A hearing on OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the case was initially scheduled for Wednesday, according to court documents.

The Hill has reached out to OpenAI and lawyers for Musk, Altman and fellow co-founder Greg Brockman, who was also listed in the lawsuit, for comment.

According to the lawsuit, Musk, Altman and Brockman agreed in 2015 that OpenAI would be a nonprofit organization that would develop AGI for the benefit of humanity and remain open source. The lawsuit claims that the maker of ChatGPT and its co-founders “reaffirmed” the agreement with Musk “on multiple occasions.”

Musk, who left OpenAI in 2018, now owns a separate AI company called xAI, alongside his ventures leading social media platform X, car maker Tesla and space company SpaceX.

The lawsuit pointed to the creation of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model, launched in March 2023, and alleged that Altman “caused OpenAI to radically depart from its original mission and historical practice of making its technology and knowledge available to the public.”

OpenAI did not provide details about GPT-4’s internal design, as it has with previous models, in a move that Musk argued was primarily for commercial reasons.

Musk’s decision to dismiss the lawsuit comes a day after he criticized Apple’s new integration of OpenAI’s ChaptGPT into its new software and devices.

He threatened to ban employees at his companies from using Apple devices if the tech giant continued with its new AI feature.

“If Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, Apple devices will be banned in my companies. This is an unacceptable security breach,” Musk wrote on his X social media platform.

Apple said on Monday that its new “Intelligence” feature will use OpenAI’s ChatGPT to help users prioritize their notifications or help rewrite language in apps, including in emails, notes or messages.

xAI launched its own text generation AI model as a competitor to ChatGPT, called Grok, earlier this year.

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