OpenAi filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk on Wednesday (9), alleging harassment from Musk and asking a federal judge to prevent him from any “unjust and unfair action” against OpenAi in a judicial process about the future of the company’s structure that helped launch the AI revolution.
Musk and OpenAi CEO, Sam Altman, co -founded OpenAi in 2015, but Musk left before the company became a technology star.
Recently, the billionaire, who founded his own AI company, Xai, in 2023, tried to prevent him from making the transition to a model for profit, culminating in the current court process.
For OpenAi to guarantee the entire $ 40 billion of its current fundraising round, the company needs to complete its transition by the end of the year.
“Through press attacks, malicious campaigns transmitted to more than 200 million Musk followers on the social media platform he controls, a pretextual demand for corporate records, harassment lawsuits, and a fraudulent offer by OpenAi assets, musk tried all the tools available to harm OpenAi,” OpenAi wrote in a document in the process in the process of musk US district for the northern district of California.
OpenAi has asked the judge to prevent Musk from performing new attacks, as well as being “responsible for the damage he has already caused.” Both parties should start a jury trial in the spring of next year.
In response, Musk’s legal team referred to an unquited acquisition offer of US $ 97.4 billion earlier this year of a consortium led by Musk, which OpenAi rejected.
“If OpenAi’s advice had actually considered the offer as it was forced to do, it would have realized the severity of the situation. It is revealing that having to pay the fair value of OpenAi assets allegedly ‘interfere’ on their business plans,” said Musk lawyer Marc Toberoff in a statement to Reuters.
In an X publication, the social network owned by Musk, OpenAi stated: “Elon’s incessant actions against us are tactical and bad faith, to slow down OpenAi and take control of the main innovations in AI for their personal benefit.”
In an agreement that evaluates the social media company at $ 33 billion and allows the value of your artificial intelligence company to be shared with investors in X.
Last year, Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla electric car manufacturer, sued OpenAi and Altman, accusing OpenAi to deviate from its fundamental mission: to develop for the good of humanity, not to corporate profit.
Musk did not respond to a request for commentary on the OpenAi process.
OpenAi and Altman denied the accusations, while Altman claims that Musk would be trying to slow down the competitor.
At stake in the process is the transition from the ChatgPT manufacturer to a profitable model, which the startup claims to be crucial to lifting more capital and competing well in.
