Elon Musk drops lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman
- The tech billionaire had originally accused the ChatGPT maker, which he helped set up, of betraying its founding mission
Elon Musk on Tuesday dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman for betraying the start-up’s founding mission.
In a California court, Musk had accused the AI firm he helped set up in 2015 of breaching a commitment to creating artificial intelligence that benefits society when it became a for-profit enterprise backed by Microsoft.
A filing by a lawyer representing Musk asked the court to dismiss the entire case, without offering a reason.
Neither Musk nor OpenAI had responded to requests for comment at time of publication.
The tycoon, who left OpenAI in 2018, argued in his original complaint that the ChatGPT maker was always intended as a non-profit entity. But he said recent boardroom changes meant OpenAI was now effectively a subsidiary of software giant Microsoft.