Elon Musk unexpectedly drops case against OpenAI
Elon Musk has unexpectedly asked a California court to withdraw a legal case against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman, which accused them of abandoning the firmâs founding mission of developing artificial intelligence (AI) for humanityâs benefit.
The filing submitted by the multi-billionaireâs lawyers asked for the months-old case to be dropped without offering any reason for the move.
It came just a day before the court was expected to hear the ChatGPT-developerâs bid to have the case dismissed.
BBC News has contacted Mr Muskâs lawyer and OpenAI for comment.
The latest filing asked for the caseâs dismissal âwithout prejudiceâ, meaning Mr Musk could still reactivate it at a later stage.
The Tesla boss filed the lawsuit against OpenAI at the end of February this year, arguing the company he had helped found in 2015 had deviated from its altruistic goals to focus on making money.
OpenAI countered that Mr Musk had previously backed the idea of a for-profit structure and even suggested a merger with his electric car firm Tesla.
The feud intensified earlier this week after Apple unveiled a partnership with OpenAI to boost its Siri voice assistant and operating systems with OpenAIâs ChatGPT chatbot.
After the announcement, Mr Musk posted several messages on his social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, criticising the tie-up.
One of the posts ended with the words: âApple has no clue whatâs actually going on once they hand your data over to OpenAI. Theyâre selling you down the river.â
However, investors seemed to welcome the news, as Appleâs stock market value rose to a record high above $3tn.
Mr Musk started his own AI company, called xAI, in July 2023, which he said would aim to âunderstand realityâ.
In November that year, xAI launched Grok, a chatbot with âa little humourâ, in a bid to rival the likes of ChatGPT.
Source: www.bbc.com
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