Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks at the Atreju conference in Rome, Italy, on Saturday, December 16, 2023. The annual event, organized by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, started in 1998 for right-wing youth and has grown into a political group that includes ministers and opposition send members.
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OpenAI challenges a fundamental proposition Tesla Chief Executive Musk made that point in a lawsuit he filed against the startup earlier this month.
As it seeks to commercialize its ChatGPT chatbot and underlying artificial intelligence model, OpenAI faces a series of legal actions, including a lawsuit from Musk and a copyright infringement case from the New York Times and The New York Times. author. OpenAI reacted to Musk’s complaints last week, mocking the claims in a memo to employees and releasing emails involving him dating back to the company’s inception.
Musk claims the startup he backed breached its contract, citing a 2015 “founding agreement” with him and two other OpenAI co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, in a complaint earlier this month. Musk said the three agreed that the new artificial intelligence laboratory would be a non-profit organization that benefits mankind and would not keep information confidential for commercial gain.
He went on to say that OpenAI violated the agreement by releasing the GPT-4 large language model last year without providing scientific details to the public.
“As the indictment itself makes clear, there is no founding agreement and no agreement between us and Musk,” OpenAI said in documents filed in San Francisco County Superior Court in California. “Instead, the Founding Agreement is Musk’s A fictional story concocted to make unearned claims on the results of a business that he initially supported, then abandoned, and then succeeded without him.”
Musk cited OpenAI’s 2015 certificate of incorporation with the Delaware Secretary of State, claiming it “commemorates” the founding agreement. But OpenAI responded that Musk’s complaint lacked an actual agreement.
The Microsoft-backed startup said Musk’s statement made no sense.but on a monday Blog article The company said it was asking the court to classify the case as complex and assign it specialized case management because it involves artificial intelligence and its claims date back nearly 10 years.
Musk mentioned in the complaint that regarding OpenAI’s 2017 plan to establish a for-profit organization, he told Brockman, Altman and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, “Either do something yourself, or continue to use OpenAI as a non-profit organization.”
OpenAI said in a March 6 filing that if the case went to trial, the evidence would show that Musk supported the startup obtaining a for-profit structure.
Musk has his own artificial intelligence lab called X.AI, which has released a chatbot called Grok, which is available through X (formerly Twitter, which Musk acquired in 2022).Musk said the startup would release Grok’s code this week under an open source license. X posts on Monday.
As of November, OpenAI’s ChatGPT had 100 million weekly users.
“Seeing the significant technological advances OpenAI has achieved, Musk now hopes that he can be successful as well,” OpenAI said in its filing. “As a result, he filed this lawsuit alleging that the defendants breached a contract that never existed. , and violates an obligation that Musk never assumed to require remedies designed to benefit OpenAI’s competitors.”
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