The war between Elon Musk and OpenAI continues to rage. The publisher of ChatGPT has just made shocking revelations about Elon Musk, with supporting evidence, ensuring that the latter has long sought to make the organization lucrative.
A deep resentment
It is known: Elon Musk harbors strong resentment towards OpenAI, which he co-founded. A resentment that pushed him to file several complaints against the company. He accuses him, in particular, of having abandoned his initial project to develop artificial intelligence (AI) for the benefit of humanity.
At the heart of the entrepreneur’s remonstrances, the famous partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft costing several billion dollars which, according to him, proves that the organization has betrayed its aspirations. This November 14, he once again sued Sam Altman’s firm in order to prohibit it from generating profits. It is currently established as a hybrid structure, with a for-profit parent company and a non-profit sub-entity, reflecting its shift to a commercial model.
In their complaint, Musk’s lawyers also want to prevent OpenAI from requiring its investors to refrain from funding competitors. In this case xAI, the startup founded by the entrepreneur in 2023 to compete with OpenAI.
Musk wanted to control OpenAI
This is obviously the straw that broke the camel’s back for society. “ Elon Musk’s latest lawsuit against OpenAI marks his fourth attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims. However, his own words and actions speak for themselves “, she writes in an extensive blog post recounting the complicated relationship she has with Elon Musk.
Messages, emails, official documents… The company backs up everything it says with evidence. We learn that, since the organization’s birth in 2015, Musk questioned its non-profit structure, suggesting that it would be “ probably better to have a standard company with a parallel non-profit association “. This shows that he already took the commercial aspect into account.
Two years later, “ Advances in our research allowed us to realize that we would need billions of dollars for computing to build artificial general intelligence », Indicates OpenAI. Management, including Elon Musk, then agreed to establish a lucrative structure. But in a twist, the billionaire demands between 50 and 60% of the company’s shares, as well as the position of CEO and several seats on the board of directors.
« On a call, Elon told us he doesn’t care about equity personally, but just needs to accumulate $80 billion to build a city on Mars », assures the company.
Management has not given in
Refusing to give in, OpenAI leaders rejected his proposal which aimed to take full control of artificial intelligence. Musk then severed his ties with the company. Since then, the meteoric rise of ChatGPT has only fueled his harsh criticism on X, where he regularly targets his former project. By founding xAI, he came to directly compete with the latter.
But for now, it is OpenAI that dominates the sector, with a colossal valuation of $157 billion. “ You can’t win the AI race with lawsuits ,” the startup says.
- In a blog post, OpenAI reveals, with supporting documents, that Elon Musk always wanted the company to be for-profit.
- The billionaire demanded control of the company, as well as the role of CEO.
- Faced with the refusal of his colleagues, he decided to leave the ship.
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