Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk speaks at the Atrej convention in Rome, Italy, Saturday, December 16, 2023. The annual event, organized by Giorgia Meloni’s Italian Brotherhood Party, began in 1998 as an Italian convention. It gathered together right-wing young people and developed into a political organization that included ministers and opposition members.
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OpenAI disputed basic claims tesla CEO Elon Musk said this in a lawsuit he filed against the company earlier this month.
ChatGPT OpenAI, which aims to commercialize its chatbot and its underlying artificial intelligence model, has been involved in a number of legal battles, including one from Mr. Musk and one from the New York Times and newspapers over copyright infringement. confronting. author. OpenAI responded to Musk’s complaints last week, mocking them in a memo to employees and releasing emails about him dating back to the company’s founding.
In a complaint filed earlier this month, Musk alleges breach of contract by the startups he was supporting and claims that Musk and two other OpenAI co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, He referred to the 2015 “Establishment Agreement.” Musk said the three agreed that the new AI institute would be a nonprofit organization for the benefit of humanity and would not withhold information for commercial gain.
He went on to say that OpenAI violated that agreement by releasing GPT-4’s large-scale language model to the public last year without providing scientific details.
“As the Complaint itself makes clear, there is no founding agreement or agreement of any kind with Mr. Musk,” OpenAI said in a filing in California’s San Francisco County Superior Court. “Rather, the founding agreement is a fiction invented by Musk to claim passive income rights to the fruits of a business he first supported, then abandoned, and then watched succeed without him.”
Musk cited OpenAI’s 2015 certificate of incorporation with the Delaware Secretary of State, which he claimed “commemorates” the founding agreement. But OpenAI countered that Musk’s claims lacked actual consensus.
The Microsoft-backed startup called Musk’s claims frivolous.But on Monday blog post It said it is asking the court to designate the case as complex and provide dedicated case management because it involves AI and the claims go back nearly a decade.
Musk said in his complaint that he told Brockman, Altman, and OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskeva about OpenAI’s plans to form a commercial organization in 2017.[e]Either do something yourself or continue with OpenAI as a nonprofit. ”
OpenAI said in a March 6 filing that if the lawsuit goes to discovery, evidence will show that Musk participated in acquiring the startup’s commercial structure.
Musk has his own AI lab called X.AI, which has released a chatbot called Grok, available through X, formerly known as Twitter, which Musk acquired in 2022. The startup will release Grok’s code under an open source license this week, Musk said.said in ×post on monday.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT has 100 million weekly users as of November.
“Having seen the remarkable technological advances that OpenAI has achieved, Mr. Musk now wants that success for himself,” OpenAI said in its filing. “So he filed this lawsuit accusing the defendants of breaching a contract that never existed and obligations that Mr. Musk never assumed, and seeking relief calculated to benefit OpenAI’s competitors. ”
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