Openai asked a federal court on Wednesday from preventing Elon Musk from unjustly attacking a high -profile lawsuit filed last year, the latest move in a bitter conflict between the start of artificial intelligence and the richest man in the world.
In a testimony to the Federal Court in San Francisco, Openai said Mr Musk “made his plan to take Openai”. The company requested that the billionaire of technology be stopped to take “further illegal and unfair action” against Openai and asked the court to keep Mr Musk responsible for any damage caused by the operation.
The testimony was another sign of the clutter between Mr Musk, who was the founder of Openai, and the company for the direction of rapidly evolving technology. In August, Mr Musk sued Openai and two of the founders of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, claiming that they had put the company’s commercial interests and AI in front of the public good with technology.
In a statement, Openai said: “Elon continues to use bad faith tactics in an attempt to slow down Openai for his personal gain.
(The New York Times has filed a lawsuit against Openai and its Microsoft partner, accusing them of copyright violations on the content of AI -related news.
Mr Musk helped to create Openai as a non -profit nature at the end of 2015, along with Mr Altman and others. But this partnership disappeared after a battle for the control of the company and the evolution of AI, with Mr Musk abandoning the organization. Since then, Openai has released Chatgpt and has become an important AI player with hundreds of millions of users. Mr Altman raised billions of dollars for Openai for the construction of AI technologies.
Last year, Openai began working on a plan to shift the company’s control of the company from the non -profit organization to Openai investors. Shortly thereafter, Mr Musk sued Openai, Mr Altman and Mr Brockman, claiming that they were breaking the company’s founding contract by putting commercial interests in front of the public good.
This year, Mr Musk and an investor consortium offered to buy the assets of the non -profit organization that controls OpenAi for more than $ 97 billion. The OpenAi Board of Directors rejected the offer.
In the deposition on Wednesday, Openai described Mr Musk’s offer to the company as “false” and said he was misleading the company’s efforts to change its corporate structure.
“Musk shapes the false claim that Openai plans to” turn “from a non -profit organization into a speculative business,” the report said.
Marc Toberoff, Mr Musk’s lawyer, said in a statement: “He really had the Openai Board of Directors, as they were obliged to do, they would have seen how serious it was.
Openai said it plans to restructure as a public benefit or PBC company, which is a profit company designed to create public and social good.
In a separate move on Wednesday, a coalition of non -profit, labor and other charitable leaders applied to California Attorney Rob Bonta to investigate Openai’s attempt to turn the company into a public benefit company.
