The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco, claims OpenAI and Altman breached contract, violated fiduciary duty, and engaged in unfair business practices. Musk is seeking a jury trial and demands that OpenAI make its technology open source. He also wants Altman to return the money he claims was earned as a result of the company's actions. OpenAI's president, Greg Brockman, is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, accusing them of prioritizing profit and commercial interests over the public good in their development of artificial intelligence.
- Musk, who helped create OpenAI in 2015, claims the company's partnership with Microsoft represents a departure from its founding pledge to develop AI responsibly and make the technology publicly available.
- The lawsuit describes OpenAI as a 'de facto subsidiary' of Microsoft and accuses it of becoming a closed-source entity, contrary to its original mission to be open source.
- Musk is demanding that OpenAI be required to make its technology open source and that Altman repay money that Musk alleges was earned as a result of the company's behavior.