Elon Musk renewed his lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, and its CEO Sam Altman, according to Reuters.
The billionaire argued on Monday that Altman put profits and commercial interests ahead of the public good. The new lawsuit is Musk’s latest attempt against the company he co-founded in 2015. He claimed that once OpenAI’s technology began transforming generative artificial intelligence (AI), Altman “flipped the narrative and proceeded to cash in.”
The lawsuit seeks a judicial determination that the licence OpenAI granted to Microsoft to use its artificial intelligence models is invalid. Musk also claims that OpenAI’s language models fall beyond the company’s partnership with Microsoft.
OpenAI has a licensing partnership with Microsoft, under which the big tech giant will invest billions of dollars in the startup in exchange for using its large language models for its computing services.
In June, Musk withdrew an earlier lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman, accusing them of abandoning the startup’s original mission to develop AI for the benefit of humanity rather than for profit. Musk’s attorneys asked a California state court to dismiss the lawsuit, originally filed in February, without explaining the reasoning behind the move.
In a lawsuit filed in February, Musk said the three OpenAI founders initially agreed to work on AI in a way that would “benefit humanity.”
