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Elon Musk Drops Suit Accusing OpenAI of Breaching Founding Mission
- Billionaire doesn’t explain why he abandoned California case
- Musk was an early backer of the startup, before Microsoft era
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Elon Musk dropped a lawsuit alleging OpenAI and its chief executive officer Sam Altman breached a founding promise last year by prioritizing profits over humanity — without saying why.
The billionaire withdrew his complaint a day before a California judge was set to hear OpenAI’s request for dismissal. Musk had accused the company of becoming a “de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft Corp. in violation of a founding agreement to be a non-profit that developed artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity.”