The feud between Elon Musk and Sam Altman continues to drag on. The CEO of OpenAI is suing Musk and wants him to take responsibility.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has filed a new complaint against Elon Musk. He wants his “unlawful and unfair actions” to stop immediately. This is stated in the document that was filed.
What’s it about?
Musk is accused of a deliberate, ongoing campaign to undermine OpenAI and promote his own company xAI. He is a co-founder of OpenAI and wanted full control when the company transitioned from a non-profit to a for-profit structure. He didn’t get it, so he resigned and paid only a fraction of his promised billion-dollar donation.
After OpenAI flourished thanks to GPT-3, GPT-4 and ChatGPT, Musk began spreading accusations against OpenAI, requested internal documents, initiated lawsuits himself, and wanted to buy part of the company for 97 billion dollars. According to OpenAI, he wanted to sabotage the restructuring and demotivate both investors and employees.
“His actions have taken their toll”
In the complaint, OpenAI writes that Musk has damaged the company’s public trust. “OpenAI is resilient,” the document states, “but Musk’s actions have taken their toll.” According to OpenAI, Musk recently even made a fake takeover bid to disrupt their future course.
In email correspondence from TechCrunch with Musk’s attorney, Marc Toberoff, he states that Musk’s takeover proposal for the non-profit part of OpenAI was serious, and that the board should have considered it. “The fact that paying fair market value ‘interferes’ with their business plans says it all,” Toberoff said.
OpenAI is trying to adjust its structure to keep up with the rapid AI developments, but Musk is simply continuing his attack against the company he co-founded.