Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, accusing them of breaching a contract by prioritizing profit and commercial interests in developing artificial intelligence over the public good.
Mr. Musk, who helped create OpenAI with Mr. Altman and others in 2015, said the company’s multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft represented an abandonment of its founding pledge to carefully develop A.I.
“OpenAI has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company, Microsoft,” said the lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in Superior Court in San Francisco.
After Mr. Musk left OpenAI’s board in 2018, the company went on to become a leader in the field of generative A.I.
Mr. Musk, who has his own A.I.
Persons:
Elon Musk, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Musk, Altman, ”
Organizations:
Microsoft
Locations:
Court, San Francisco