CALIFORNIA: Tesla CEO Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman that claimed the tech founders had betrayed the startup’s founding mission.
In February, Musk, 52, in a California court, had accused the AI firm of breaching a commitment to creating artificial intelligence that benefits humanity and making it a for-profit enterprise backed by Microsoft.
Attorneys for Musk asked to drop the lawsuit without giving a reason for the move, according to a filing in San Francisco Superior Court, CNN reported.
The shock move came ahead of a hearing by a Superior Court judge for OpenAI’s bid to dismiss the lawsuit on Wednesday.
However, Musk dismissed his case without prejudice, which means he could refile it at another time.
The lawsuit marked a culmination of Musk’s long-simmering opposition to OpenAI, a startup he co-founded in 2015 but left in 2018.
Musk in the lawsuit asked a judge to force OpenAI to make its research and technology available to the public and to prevent the startup from using its assets, including GPT-4, for the financial benefit of Microsoft and others.
OpenAI had argued in a court filing that the lawsuit was based on incoherent claims, describing it as a contrived attempt by Musk to advance his own AI interests.
“Seeing the remarkable technological advances OpenAI has achieved, Musk now wants that success for himself,” OpenAI’s attorneys said.
Musk, in his lawsuit filed in April, argued that OpenAI was trying to “advance arguments that are based on disputed facts” that are beyond the scope of the lawsuit.
Musk established his own artificial intelligence startup, xAI, last July which raised $6 billion in series B funding in May to reach a post-money valuation of $24 billion. AFP
