This is Musk's fourth lawsuit against OpenAI, with the previous ones accusing the company of violating its founding mission of building AI for the benefit of humanity. OpenAI, which is transitioning to a for-profit model, has dismissed Musk's latest filing as "utterly without merit," stating that it recycles the same baseless complaints as the previous lawsuits.
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk's attorneys have filed for an injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of anticompetitive practices and seeking to halt OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit company.
- The lawsuit also names OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Microsoft’s Dee Templeton and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as defendants.
- Musk alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft have been telling investors not to fund OpenAI’s competitors, such as Musk’s xAI, and accuses them of benefiting from wrongfully obtained competitively sensitive information.
- In response to Musk's latest filing, an OpenAI spokesperson stated that Musk's fourth attempt, which recycles the same baseless complaints, continues to be utterly without merit.