Unexpectedly, Elon Musk requested that a California court drop his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, on the grounds that they had abandoned the company’s original goal of creating artificial intelligence (AI) for the good of humanity.
The multibillionaire’s attorneys filed a filing requesting the months-old case to be withdrawn, but they did not provide an explanation for the action.
It happened just one day before the ChatGPT developer’s request to have the lawsuit dismissed was scheduled to be heard by the court.
For comment, BBC News has reached out to OpenAI and Mr. Musk’s attorney.
The most recent filing requested the case be dismissed “without prejudice,” which means that Mr. Musk may decide to reopen it at a later date.The Tesla CEO sued OpenAI at the end of February of this year, claiming the business he assisted in founding in 2015 had strayed from its charitable objectives in favour of profit-making.
In response, OpenAI pointed out that Mr. Musk had already supported the notion of a for-profit organisation and had even proposed a combination with his electric vehicle company, Tesla.
After Apple announced a collaboration with OpenAI to enhance its Siri voice assistant and operating systems with OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot, the rivalry grew more intense earlier this week.
Following the announcement, Mr. Musk criticised the partnership in many posts on his social media network X, which was formerly known as Twitter.
The words “Apple has no idea what’s actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI” concluded one of the articles. You are being duped by them.”
Apple’s stock market value reached a record high above $3 trillion, indicating that investors appeared to be pleased with the news.
In July 2023, Elon Musk founded xAI, a startup dedicated to artificial intelligence, with the stated goal of “understanding reality”.
In an attempt to compete with ChatGPT and other similar chatbots, xAI introduced Grok, a chatbot with “a little humour”, in November of that year.
