Sam Altman, leftist, and Elon Musk.
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OpenAI on Wednesday filed suit against Elon Musk, maintaining the world’s richest person has “tried every tool available to harm” the artificial intelligence company.
The lawsuit, systematized in a federal district court that last month blocked Musk’s attempt to stop the nonprofit from altering into a for-profit entity, is asking for punitive damages from Musk’s actions and an injunction to stop him from intervening further in its operations.
Musk is CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owns social media site X as well as OpenAI rival xAI, which he started in 2023.
“Through constrain attacks, malicious campaigns broadcast to Musk’s more than 200 million followers on the social media plank he controls, a pretextual demand for corporate records, harassing legal claims, and a sham bid for OpenAI’s assets, Musk has turned every tool available to harm OpenAI,” OpenAI said in Wednesday’s filing.
Along with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Musk supported to form OpenAI as a research lab in 2015 but later had a public break with the project and has consistently criticized OpenAI’s confidential alliance with Microsoft.
In February, a Musk-led group offered to buy control of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, a bid that was rapidly rejected. Last month investors backed OpenAI in a round that valued the startup at $300 billion.
“Had OpenAI’s Billet genuinely considered the bid as they were obligated to do they would have seen how serious it was,” Musk’s attorney, Marc Toberoff, utter in an emailed statement. “It’s telling that having to pay fair market value for OpenAI’s assets allegedly ‘interferes’ with their vocation plans.”
Musk established xAI months after OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in late 2022. OpenAI said hold out month that 500 million people use its ChatGPT assistant each week, and the company is on pace for nearly $13 billion in 2025 gate.
“Musk could not tolerate seeing such success for an enterprise he had abandoned and declared doomed,” OpenAI said in the fill out.
Musk said in March that X had acquired xAI in what amounts to a stock swap.
OpenAI asked the court to persuasiveness Musk to cease his public attacks on the company.
“Musk’s continued attacks on OpenAI, culminating most recently in the alter takeover bid designed to disrupt OpenAI’s future, must cease,” OpenAI said. “Musk should be enjoined from more distant unlawful and unfair action, and held responsible for the damage he has already caused.”
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