Elon Musk sued OpenAI for being undisclosed and said he wants his $44 million back

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has accused OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company he founded in 2015, of violating its non-profit mission and refusing to share information about its most powerful product, the GPT-4.

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Musk filed a lawsuit in a San Francisco court on Thursday, demanding that OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman pay him back the $44 million he donated to the company and make his research and technology available to the public.

Musk claims he gave OpenAI the money on the condition that it would operate as a non-profit organisation and make its research freely available to the public. However, he said the company has become a for-profit subsidiary of Microsoft, which invested $13 billion in it and focused on enriching Altman and Microsoft rather than the good of humanity.

Musk also said OpenAI refused to share information about GPT-4, the most powerful language model released by the company to date. GPT-4 is capable of generating text on any topic, including news, poetry and code.

Musk has made no secret of his frustration with OpenAI over the years and has publicly questioned whether it is legal to set up the company as a non-profit organisation and then use the IP to generate revenue. In February 2023, Musk indicated that OpenAI in its current form is "not at all" what he set out to create.

The lawsuit itself can be found at the following link.

Source: Gizmodo