Microsoft joins Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT
Microsoft has been named as a defendant in
Elon Musk's resurrected lawsuit
against ChatGPT
manufacturer OpenAI, intensifying their
long-running spat. In a revised court case filed on Thursday,
Mr. Musk, a co-founder of the artificial intelligence
(AI) business, accused the tech giant and the AI
startup of running a monopoly.
It comes after earlier lawsuits claimed the
corporation had violated the values he had
adhered to when he co-founded it in 2015.
Regarding the case, Microsoft chose not to
comment.
Mr. Musk's updated complaint was deemed
"baseless" by an OpenAI official.
They told the BBC, "Elon's third attempt to
reframe his assertions in less than a year is even
more unsubstantiated and overreaching than
the previous ones.
" They went on to say that earlier emails from
Musk that were made public in reaction to his
initial complaint "spoke for themselves.
" The court filing on Thursday adds LinkedIn
co-founder Reid Hoffman as a defendant
and updates a case that was filed in a California
court in August.
Mr. Hoffman has been contacted by the BBC
to respond.
According to the lawsuit, OpenAI changed from
being a "tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion
(£124 billion) for-profit,
market-paralyzing gorgon."
Additionally, it asserts that OpenAI and Microsoft
utilized a monopoly to drive out rivals in the AI
space, including xAI, the business owned
by Elon Musk.
It claims that "Defendants have been unjustly
profited to the tune of hundreds of billions
of dollars in value as a result of their unlawful
conduct, while Mr. Musk has been duped along
with the public." "Capped profit" In 2015,
OpenAI was established with the goal
of creating artificial general intelligence (AGI),
which is commonly understood to mean AI that is
capable of carrying out any task that a human
being can.
The company revealed a new "capped profit"
structure in 2019 that would enable them to
raise capital.
Soon after, Microsoft invested $1 billion in OpenAI,
which was later increased to a multi-year,
multi-billion dollar agreement in 2023.
Boss Sam Altman, a designated defendant in the
case, is also accused of "rampant
self-dealing" in the lawsuit.
In his March lawsuit, Mr. Musk claimed the deal
had made it "a closed-source de facto subsidiary"
of the PC behemoth.
OpenAI refuted his assertions, pointing out that
Musk has previously supported the notion of a
for-profit organization.
According to a blog post on its website,
the billionaire once desired "total control"
over the business.
As part of his plan to "dismantle" bureaucracy
when he returns to the White House next year,
US President-elect Donald Trump selected
Mr. Musk for a position in government
cost-cutting, which coincides with his
reiterated assertions.
Source bbc.com
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