Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman

Elon Musk filed a new lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday, reviving an earlier legal effort against the massive artificial intelligence (AI) company he helped found.

The new federal lawsuit claims that Altman and fellow co-founder Greg Brockman violated the company’s founding mission and “assiduously manipulated Musk into co-founding their spurious nonprofit venture” by promising they would create safe and transparent AI technology while actually doing so. the opposite. .

Musk’s lawyers alleged that Altman carried out a “long scam” against the tech billionaire in the lawsuit, describing “treachery and deceit” of “Shakespearean proportions.”

This echoes Musk’s allegations in the previous lawsuit against the company, filed in June without explanation.

Musk’s lawyer Marc Toberoff told The New York Times This second attempt is “a much more forceful lawsuit,” alleging that OpenAI violated federal racketeering laws in an attempt to defraud Musk when he left the company in 2018.

The lawsuit also challenges Microsoft’s huge investment in the company’s for-profit subsidiary, claiming that its agreement with the tech giant also goes against the company’s founding mission, preventing it from making its technology open source.

OpenAI has already rejected Musk’s claims, pointing to company emails shortly before Musk left the company in 2018, where he argues it should become a commercial subsidiary of Tesla.

OpenAI Executives said in an internal memo When the first lawsuit was filed, the accusations may have been sparked by jealousy over missing out on the company’s recent success.

Musk now owns a separate AI company called xAI, alongside his ventures as leader of social platform X, Tesla and space company SpaceX.

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