In November, Elon Musk asked a federal court to block OpenAi's plan to transform itself from a non-profit into a purely profitable company.
On Tuesday, a federal court in San Francisco denied the request of Mr. Musk and called it 'Extraordinary'. But the court allowed Mr. Musk to continue with other aspects of a lawsuit that he brought against OpenAi and her Chief Executive, Sam Altman last year.
Mr. Musk helped to create OpenAi as a non -profit in 2015, together with Mr. Altman and others. In 2018, Mr. Musk left the organization after a battle for control over the company. Mr Altman then attached OpenAi to a company with a profit, so that he could collect the billions of dollars that are needed to build artificial intelligence technologies.
But the non -profit organization retained control of the company. Last year, Mr Altman and his company started working on a plan to move control over the company from the non-profit organization to the investors of OpenAi as a for-profit company.
Shortly thereafter, Mr. Musk brought a lawsuit against OpenAi and Mr Altman and claimed that they had violated the company's founding contract by putting commercial interests for the public interest.
Later, Mr. Musk expanded the complaint to include claims that OpenAI had violated the antitrust laws by asking investors not to agree not to invest in rival companies, including the new artificial intelligence company of Mr. Musk, Xai.
“We welcome the court's decision,” said Lindsey, a spokeswoman for OpenAi, in a statement. “Elons have showed his own e-mails that he wanted to merge a for-profit OpenAi in Tesla. That would have been great for his personal advantage, but not for our mission or American interests. “
Earlier this year, Mr. Musk and a consortium of investors escalated for a long time with Mr Altman by offering to buy the non -profit organization's assets that OpenAI checks for more than $ 97 billion. The Board of Directors of OpenAi later rejected the bid.
But the bid can still make Mr Altman's efforts to separate the company from the non -profit organization, and the billions of dollars that OpenAi need need new technologies.
“We are pleased that the court has offered an accelerated trial about the core claims that stimulate this case that are present in his words 'urgent' issues in the interest of the public,” said Marc Toberoff, the lawyer who represents Mr. Musk, in a statement to the New York Times.
(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.)
