Elon Musk Isn't Suing ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI Anymore

Jun 13, 2024 02:12 AM - 7 months ago 166576

Over 3 months aft filing a suit accusing OpenAI of going against its original mission, Elon Musk is dropping nan suit.

Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but stepped distant successful 2018 and now owns rival AI startup xAI. He sued OpenAI successful precocious February successful California authorities court, alleging that nan ChatGPT-maker was going against its open-source founding principles and creating AI "to maximize profits for Microsoft, alternatively than for nan use of humanity."

His suit prompted OpenAI leaders to release soul emails he sent from 2015 to 2018 encouraging them to activity funding.

Musk decided to record to disregard nan suit connected Tuesday, and nan lawsuit was dismissed, according to tribunal documents obtained by CNBC. Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and proprietor of X. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

The lawsuit could person been dismissed without Musk dropping it. OpenAI had already moved to propulsion retired Musk's claims and a judge was going to determine connected nan matter astatine a proceeding primitively scheduled for Wednesday successful San Francisco, per CNBC.

Though nan lawsuit is over, Musk is still publically calling retired OpenAI.

On Monday, Musk criticized Apple's decision to activity pinch OpenAI and bring ChatGPT to nan iPhone and said that he would prohibition Apple devices astatine his companies.

He wrote, "Apple has nary hint what's really going connected erstwhile they manus your information complete to OpenAI. They're trading you down nan river."

Musk has previously called retired Google, OpenAI, and Meta's AI efforts and raised $6 cardinal past period for his AI startup.

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