On Wednesday, OpenAi asked a federal court to prohibit Elon Musk to attack it unfairly due to a controversial lawsuit that he filed last year, the last step in a bitter feud between the start-up of artificial intelligence and the richest man in the world.
In an application in the federal court in San Francisco, OpenAi said that Mr. Musk had made his project to defeat OpenAi. ” The company asked to stop taking the technical billionaire to “further illegal and unfair action” against OpenAi and asked the court to hold Mr Musk responsible for any damage he caused the company.
The application was another sign of the bitterness between Mr. Musk, who was the founder of OpenAi, and the company about the direction of the rapidly evolving technology. In August, Mr. Musk OpenAi and two of his founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, claimed, claimed that they put the commercial interests of the company and AI for the public for the technology.
In a statement, OpenAi said: “Elon continues to use bad loyalty tactics in an attempt to delay OpenAi for his personal advantage. These efforts are anti-competitive and go against our mission, which is why we have submitted a countersuit today to stop them.”
(The New York Times has sued OpenAi and his partner, Microsoft, and accuses them of infringing copyright with regard to news content with regard to AI systems. OpenAi and Microsoft have denied those claims.)
Mr. Musk helped OpenAi to create as a non -profit at the end of 2015, together with Mr. Altman and others. But after a struggle to control the company and the evolution of AI, that partnership brought, where Mr. Musk left the organization. Since then, OpenAI has released Chatgpt and became a large AI player with hundreds of millions of users. Mr. Altman has collected billions of dollars for OpenAI to build AI technologies.
Last year, OpenAi started working on a plan to move control over the company from the non -profit organization to the investors of OpenAi. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Musk OpenAi, Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman, continued and claimed that they violated the company's founding contract by putting commercial interests above the public interest.
This year, Mr. Musk and a consortium of investors offered to buy the non -profit organization's assets that OpenAi checks for more than $ 97 billion. The Board of Directors of OpenAi rejected the bid.
In the submission on Wednesday, OpenAI described Mr. Musk's offer for the company as 'fake' and said that he misunderstands the efforts of the company to change his business structure.
“Musk takes the false statement that OpenAi is planning to 'convert' with a non-profit in a company with a profit motive,” said the application.
Marc Toberoff, Mr. Musk's lawyer, said in a statement: “The board of OpenAi had really considered the bid as they were obliged to make, they would have seen how serious it was. It is said to be having to pay fair market value for OpenAi's assets 'interfering' with their business plans.”
OpenAI has said that it is planning to restructure as a company for public benefits, or PBC, a company with a profit motive that is designed to create public and socially good.
In a separate step on Wednesday, a coalition of non -profit, work and other philanthropic leaders submitted a petition to the attorney -general of California, Rob Bonta, to convert the open -in attempt to convert the company into a company into the public interest.
