Alliance with Microsoft
Musk resumes his lawsuit against OpenAI
After temporarily backing down, billionaire Elon Musk is taking legal action against the ChatGPT developer OpenAI, which he co-founded. The aim is to have the company's billion-dollar partnership with Microsoft declared null and void, according to the court documents. In June, he dropped the lawsuit without giving reasons.
Musk accuses OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman of disregarding the original purpose of the project. It was intended to develop artificial intelligence (AI) for the benefit of humanity and not for profit.
OpenAI rejects the accusations. OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a non-profit research and development organization. To attract external investors, it founded a for-profit subsidiary in 2019. By this time, Musk had already parted ways with OpenAI in a dispute.
At the beginning of 2023, Microsoft pumped 10 billion dollars (currently 9.2 billion euros) into the commercial arm of OpenAI. However, according to its own statements, the software group did not secure any shares, but only a share of the profits. The antitrust authorities in the USA and Europe are also taking a closer look at this deal.
Dispute over founding agreement
In the first lawsuit, Musk accused OpenAI of violating the founding agreement in February. Musk argued that the company he co-founded in 2015 had strayed from the agreed path of being a not-for-profit company whose research into artificial intelligence was intended to benefit humanity.
OpenAI countered, among other things, that there was no formal founding agreement that could have been breached. Musk then backed down shortly before the first hearing on the case. US experts had given his lawsuit little chance of success.
Musk's lawyer Marc Toberoff has now told the New York Times that the previous lawsuit was toothless and the new one is much stronger. At its core, the allegation is that there was a conspiracy to defraud Musk.
A year ago, the AI chatbot ChatGPT triggered unprecedented hype around artificial intelligence - with expectations ranging from almost unlimited digital possibilities to fears of human extinction. Such AI chatbots are trained with vast amounts of information and can formulate texts at the linguistic level of a human. The principle behind this is that they estimate word for word how a sentence should continue.
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