Musk filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI — reason
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Elon Musk's lawyers have filed for an injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft. They accuse the companies of anticompetitive actions and try to stop the transformation of OpenAI into a commercial company.
This was reported by Engadget.
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The defendants in the lawsuit are:
- OpenAI CEO — Sam Altman;
- President of OpenAI — Greg Brockman;
- Microsoft employee — Dee Templeton;
- Reid Hoffman — co-founder of LinkedIn.
Earlier this year, Elon Musk had already filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for violating its mission to create AI for the benefit of humanity, but later withdrew it a few months later. Time passed, and he filed another lawsuit against the company in a California federal court in August, and recently added Microsoft as a defendant.
In the new lawsuit, OpenAI and Microsoft are accused of encouraging investors not to fund OpenAI's competitors, such as Musk's xAI. The allegations also include benefiting from improperly obtained confidential competitive information or coordination through their relationship with Microsoft, as well as other alleged antitrust violations.
"OpenAI's journey from nonprofit to for-profit giant is rife with anti-competitive practices, egregious violations of its charitable mission, and rampant self-interest," the report says.
The situation comes a few months after it became known that OpenAI was moving to a profitable business model.
"Elon's fourth attempt, which again repeats the same baseless complaints, continues to be completely unfounded," an OpenAI spokesperson told Engadget.
The company has already tried to dismiss Musk's lawsuit, calling it hoary and baseless.
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