OpenAI Is Not So Open: Elon Musk Sues ChatGPT’s Creator and Its CEO Sam Altman for Deviating From the Company’s “Non-Profit” Ethos

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Never before has the siren call of capitalism been as disruptive to a non-profit entity as OpenAI's ongoing struggle to monetize its advancements in the AI sphere without compromising on its altruistic ethos. Elon Musk has now jumped into this melee by lobbing a lawsuit at ChatGPT's creator entity and its CEO, Sam Altman.

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In a high-profile lawsuit filed late on Thursday night, Elon Musk launched a complaint against Sam Altman and OpenAI for breaching the non-profit's contract, promissory estoppel, and fiduciary duty by turning away from its dedication to bringing about an open-source artificial general intelligence, presumably all under Microsoft's influence:

While hammering on the closed-loop nature of OpenAI's GPT-4 Large Language Model (LLM), Elon Musk's complaint notes:

According to Musk, OpenAI's non-profit character has been distorted by "a purely profit-driven CEO and a Board with inferior technical expertise in AGI and AI public policy." Consequently, the CEO of Tesla has implored the court to grant an injunction to prevent Open AI, its President Gregory Brockman, its CEO Sam Altman, and Microsoft from profiting off the non-profit's AI technology.

For the benefit of those who might not be aware, Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI but left its board in 2018. The CEO of Tesla is currently playing catch-up with the GPT-4 LLM via xAI's Grok model.

Bear in mind that OpenAI is currently in a unique sort of partnership with Microsoft, which owns a 49 percent stake in the AI-focused enterprise. Back in January 2023, Microsoft invested $10 billion in OpenAI, bringing its total investments in the revolutionary company to $13 billion. In return for providing this funding, as well as access to its cloud-computing service