Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman again

Elon Musk revived his complaint against OpenAI after dropping a previous lawsuit, again alleging that the maker of ChatGPT and two of its founders – Sam Altman and Greg Brockman – violated the company’s founding mission to develop artificial intelligence technology to benefit the humanity.

O new process filed in federal court in Northern California on Monday says Altman and Brockman “assiduously manipulated Musk into co-founding their spurious nonprofit venture” by promising that OpenAI would be safer and more transparent than for-profit alternatives. The lawsuit claims that assurances about OpenAI’s nonprofit structure were “the hook for Altman’s long scam.”

Musk made similar accusations in a “hilariously bad” lawsuit that he withdrew in June without explanation, which focused on allegations that OpenAI violated its founding agreement between Musk and other co-founders to keep the company’s technology open source.

“This is a much more forceful process,” Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, told The New York Times. The new lawsuit argues that OpenAI violated federal racketeering laws in a conspiracy to defraud Musk and that its contract with Microsoft would revoke the tech giant’s rights to OpenAI’s technology once artificial general intelligence (AGI) was achieved.