Elon Musk, the top manager of the company OpenAI, of which he is one of the founders along with Sam Altman, was sued in San Francisco. Musk, the owner of the social media platform, claimed that „the company has abandoned its original mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not for profit.“
In the lawsuit filed on Thursday, February 29, Altman and the co-founders of OpenAI, including Greg Brockman, argued that they had approached Musk to establish a non-profit open-source company.
„They are keeping the design of GPT-4 secret,“ as per the Reuters news agency. Elon Musk’s lawyers stated that the focus of the Microsoft-backed company, MSFT.O, on making money was in violation of this agreement. Lawyers who approached the justice system in San Francisco argued that the company had kept the design of GPT-4, the most advanced artificial intelligence model, „completely secret.“
Musk was one of the founders of OpenAI in 2015 and left the company’s board in 2018. In 2023, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself was dismissed by the former board of directors. The board argued that the company „advocates for the mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity.“ Altman later returned to the company’s management.
According to the news from the US newspaper The Washington Post on February 29, OpenAI plans to add a series of new names to the company’s board in March.