OpenAI Fires Back at Musk Over ‘Altruism Versus Greed’ Lawsuit

Microsoft-backed AI company accuses billionaire of harassment
Musk says OpenAI founders enriched themselves draining assets

Elon Musk
Photographer: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg

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By Malathi Nayak and Rachel Metz

October 9, 2024 at 3:33 AM UTC

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OpenAI accused Elon Musk of harassment in a legal fight that’s unfolding as the startup weighs a plan to shift to a for-profit business model.

Not quite two months after he abandoned his first suit against OpenAI, Musk filed a complaint in August claiming that co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman manipulated him into investing in the startup, which at the start was a nonprofit, and then enriched themselves by draining it of its prized technology and assets.