OpenAI hit back against Elon Musk Blog post published on its website Tuesday in response to a lawsuit from one of its co-founders and former benefactors.
musk filed the lawsuit last week in San Francisco against the company, Chief Executive Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, saying it had deviated from its mission to build responsible AI. In the post, OpenAI said that Musk reacted strongly after failing to make the company part of it Tesla Inc.
“We are saddened that things have come to this with someone we deeply admired,” OpenAI wrote, “someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, launched a competitor, and then sued us as we began production.” without him making significant progress toward OpenAI’s mission.”
The billionaire Tesla CEO, co-founder of OpenAI, who is no longer involved in the company, claims in his lawsuit that the startup has a close relationship with… Microsoft Corp. has undermined its original mission to develop open source technology without undue corporate influence.
“To this day, OpenAI Inc.’s website continues to assert that its charter is to ensure that AGI ‘benefits all humanity,'” the lawsuit says. “In reality, however, OpenAI Inc. has transformed itself into a closed-source, de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft.”
AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to a type of AI that doesn’t yet exist but could theoretically do a variety of tasks better than humans.
Musk is suing, among other things, for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and allegations of unfair business practices. He first filed the lawsuit in 2019 in his capacity as a donor to the nonprofit’s parent organization, seeking to force San Francisco-based OpenAI to stop personally supporting Microsoft and Altman.
OpenAI did not comment publicly on Musk’s lawsuit when it was originally filed on February 29. However, in an internal memo reviewed by BloombergThe company said it “categorically disagrees” with the lawsuit.