“There is no Founding Agreement, or any agreement at all with Musk,” OpenAI stated in a court docket submitting as a defendant in Elon Musk’s lawsuit. We’re, in fact, speaking concerning the lawsuit Musk filed towards OpenAI, which accuses it of violating its standing as a non-profit, in addition to of violating a founding settlement promising the group would by no means function for revenue and would launch its AI publicly. The corporate stated the billionaire’s claims are primarily based on “convoluted — often incoherent — factual premises.” It referred to as that founding settlement “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.”
If the case goes to discovery, there’s proof that might present that Musk supported OpenAI’s transition right into a for-profit construction, “to be controlled by Musk himself,” OpenAI continued. Additional, the billionaire allegedly ceased supporting the challenge when his concepts weren’t adopted. That assertion echoes the corporate’s weblog submit from earlier this month, whereby it printed purported emails to and from Musk from when he was nonetheless concerned with the group. Primarily based on these exchanges, Musk knew and was in favor of turning OpenAI right into a for-profit entity. He even needed full management of it as CEO and to have majority fairness. Musk additionally agreed with a suggestion to connect the group to Tesla, in order that the automaker might present its funding. In the long run, the events did not come to settlement, and Musk ended his involvement.
“Seeing the remarkable technological advances OpenAI has achieved, Musk now wants that success for himself,” OpenAI wrote in its submitting. “Musk purports to bring this suit for humanity, when the truth — evident even from the face of Musk’s contradictory pleading — is that he brings it to advance his own commercial interests.”
Musk launched his personal synthetic intelligence firm referred to as xAI final yr, with the reasonably lofty objective of understanding “the true nature of the universe.” A couple of days after OpenAI printed its weblog submit whereby it claimed that Musk knew it by no means meant to open supply its know-how, the billionaire introduced that xAI was going to open supply its Grok chatbot. Whereas it might very properly be a dig at OpenAI, open sourcing Grok might additionally get his firm suggestions from the developer group, which xAI might then use to enhance its know-how.