The Superior Court of the State of California, San Francisco, displayed a notice of action declaring thatMuskformal charge OpenAI and co-founder Sam Altman Musk's main allegations include OpenAI's breach of contractual agreements, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair business practices. He demanded that OpenAI open-source its technology and share it with all of humanity. The lawsuit also involves OpenAI's secret development of a large model called Q*, which led to Altman's removal from his position.
Founded in 2015, OpenAI was originally co-founded by Musk, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and Reid Hoffman. Musk resigned from the board in 2018, after which the company accepted a $1 billion investment from Microsoft.OpenAI garnered widespread attention after the launch of GPT-2 and GPT-3, but Musk has expressed concern about the company's philosophical shift.
Musk founded xAI in 2023 to counter OpenAI and launched a product similar to ChatGPT. He believes OpenAI has fallen behind and proposes to take over OpenAI but is rejected.
Against this backdrop, Musk is suing OpenAI, demanding that the company fulfill its original promise to open up AI for the benefit of humanity. The whole incident reflects the reality of fierce competition in the AI field and the intertwining of cooperation and contradiction between companies.