According to a lawsuit filed on Thursday in San Francisco, Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, among other people, alleging that they have broken contractual agreements made when he assisted in founding the ChatGPT company in 2015.
According to the lawsuit, Elon Musk was first approached by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, the co-founders of OpenAI, to establish an open-source, nonprofit organization dedicated to creating artificial intelligence technology for the “benefit of humanity.”
The Microsoft-backed business’s concentration on making money, according to Elon Musk’s attorneys, violates that contract.
In 2015, Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI; however, in 2018, he left the company’s board. In October 2022, he acquired Twitter for $44 billion and is also the CEO of Tesla, a manufacturer of electric cars.
After launching in November 2022, ChatGPT, an OpenAI chatbot, grew to become the fastest-growing software application globally in just six months. It also spurred the introduction of competing chatbots from Alphabet, Microsoft, and numerous startups that capitalized on the hype to raise billions of dollars in investment.
Since its release, ChatGPT has been used by businesses for a variety of tasks, ranging from writing computer code to summarizing documents. This has caused a rush among Big Tech companies to release their own generative AI-based products.
