OpenAI has challenged a foundational claim Tesla CEO Elon Musk made in the lawsuit he filed against the startup earlier this month.
"There is no Founding Agreement, or any agreement at all with Musk, as the complaint itself makes clear," OpenAI said in a document on file with California's superior court for San Francisco County.
"The Founding Agreement is instead a fiction Musk has conjured to lay unearned claim to the fruits of an enterprise he initially supported, then abandoned, then watched succeed without him."
Musk quoted OpenAI's 2015 certificate of incorporation with the Delaware secretary of state, asserting that it "memorialized" the founding agreement.
"Seeing the remarkable technological advances OpenAI has achieved, Musk now wants that success for himself," OpenAI said in its filing.
Persons:
Elon Musk, Giorgia Meloni's, OpenAI, Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, Brockman, Altman, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI's ChatGPT
Organizations:
Tesla Inc, New York Times, San, Microsoft
Locations:
Rome, Italy, San Francisco County, Delaware