In response to Musk's lawsuit, OpenAI released previous emails indicating Musk's plans to merge the company with Tesla to form a for-profit entity. OpenAI maintains that its mission does not include open-sourcing AGI and emphasizes its commitment to ensuring AGI benefits all of mankind.
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is planning to make its chatbot, Grok, open-source, potentially rivaling OpenAI's ChatGPT.
- Musk has expressed discomfort with the direction of AI development, leading to a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, accusing them of prioritizing profit over the development of AI for the benefit of humanity.
- Musk has criticized OpenAI for becoming a closed source, maximum-profit company controlled by Microsoft, and demanded the return of the $44 million he gave to the organization.
- OpenAI responded to Musk's lawsuit by releasing emails indicating Musk's plans to merge the company with Tesla to form a for-profit entity, and stated that its mission did not include open-sourcing AGI.