Elon Musk Sues OpenAI and Altman for Breaching Firm’s Founding Mission
- Suit says OpenAI puts profit ahead of benefiting humanity
- Musk is raising money for a competing venture called xAI
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Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, alleging they violated the artificial intelligence startup’s founding mission by putting profit ahead of benefiting humanity.
The 52-year-old billionaire, who was a co-founder of OpenAI but is no longer involved, said in a lawsuit filed late Thursday in San Francisco that the company’s close relationship with Microsoft Corp. has undermined its original mission of creating open-source technology that wouldn’t be subject to corporate priorities.