Lawyers for Elon Musk on Tuesday filed a motion to dismiss the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, ending a months-long battle between co-founders of the artificial intelligence

Lawyers for Elon Musk on Tuesday moved to dismiss the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, ending a months-long legal battle between co-founders of the artificial intelligence startup.

Musk — who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 — sued the company in March, accusing the ChatGPT maker of abandoning its original, nonprofit mission by reserving some of its most advanced AI technology for private customers. The lawsuit had sought a jury trial and for the company, Altman and co-founder and president Greg Brockman to pay back any profit they received from the business.

  • ZeroCool@vger.socialEnglish
    2902·
    7 months ago

    OpenAI, meanwhile, accused Musk of essentially being jealous that he was no longer involved in the startup, after he left OpenAI in 2018 following an unsuccessful bid to convince his fellow co-founders to let Tesla acquire it.

    So a spoiled brat had a massive hissy fit after not getting his way? Yeah, that sounds like Elon alright.

    • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
      861·
      7 months ago

      Yeah he didn’t give a shit if they switched to for-profit, he was just mad he wasn’t getting some of that profit

    • gressen@lemm.eeEnglish
      45·
      7 months ago

      Imagine all the bullshit promises he would make if he bought ChatGPT.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    184·
    7 months ago

    The emails appeared to show Musk acknowledging the need for the company to make large sums of money to fund the computing resources needed to power its AI ambitions, which stood in contrast to the claims in his lawsuit that OpenAI was wrongly pursuing profit.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
        92·
        7 months ago

        Yeah I was thinking the same. Must be a slow news day, they just repost old articles.

        • sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
          41·
          7 months ago

          I think the news is that he’s dropping his lawsuit, and the emails (which are old news in the tech press) are the presumed reason he’s dropping the lawsuit.

    • Match!!@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I don’t think open-sourcing matters too much here: the datasets are all open sourced and the technique itself is published and well documented. OpenAI’s advantage ia that they can burn the $10 million in processor energy that it costs to train each new model of GPT.

      edit: Up through GPT-3, that is (GPT-4 is worse and I don’t know why people would want it)

  • Paradox@lemdro.idEnglish
    677·
    7 months ago

    Can we just have both entities annihilate each other? Please? They’re both shit

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldEnglish
    531·
    7 months ago

    Elon Musk embarrasses himself by spouting unsubstantiated bullshit yet again. More news at ten.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    481·
    7 months ago

    Normally seeing after how big tech companies use AI, I would agree with him but he prolly just wants X AI to be the next big thing so he is jealous.

  • Psych@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    393·
    7 months ago

    Wait a moment did I just read that musk kinda fought to make open AI nonprofit lol ? Insert the worst person you knew made a great point meme here