Openai Just Dropped New Elon Musk Receipts: ‘you Can’t Sue Your Way To Agi’

The suit betwixt Elon Musk and OpenAI is really heating up.

OpenAI conscionable dropped a caller blog station defending itself against Musk that outlines immoderate caller matter messages betwixt cofounders Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and erstwhile committee unit Shivon Zilis.

“You can’t writer your measurement to AGI,” nan OpenAI blog position reads, referring to artificial wide intelligence, which Altman has promised soon. “We personification awesome respect for Elon’s accomplishments and gratitude for his early contributions to OpenAl, but he should beryllium competing successful the marketplace alternatively than nan courtroom. It is captious for nan U.S. to enactment nan world leader in Al. Our ngo is to guarantee AGI benefits each of humanity, and we personification been and will enactment a mission-driven organization. We dream Elon shares that goal, and will uphold nan values of invention and free marketplace title that personification driven his ain success.”

The blog highlights Musk’s attempts to maneuver into nan CEO position and summation mostly powerfulness of nan institution (though it adds that connected 1 telephone Musk said he “didn’t attraction astir equity” but “just needed to accumulate $80B for a metropolis connected Mars”). Musk too projected that OpenAI rotation into Tesla, which has been antecedently revealed. When nan negotiations fell isolated because OpenAI’s cofounders rejected his relationship (Brockman and Sutskever admitted they had fears of a powerfulness struggle), Musk resigned from nan company.

The blog said that aft Musk resigned, he hosted a goodbye all-hands pinch nan squad wherever he encouraged them to “pursue nan measurement we saw to raising billions per year” and that “he would prosecute precocious Al investigation astatine Tesla, which was nan only conveyance he believed could get this level of funding.”

Later, astir nan clip Musk was moving to get Twitter, he texted Altman that he was “disturbed” to spot nan company’s caller $20 cardinal valuation. “De facto. I provided almost each nan seed, A and astir of B accusation funding,” he wrote, according to nan disclosed texts. “This is simply a bait and switch.”

A less months aft that interaction, Musk started an OpenAI competitor, xAI.

Some of nan messages published by OpenAI were antecedently outlined successful tribunal filings that Musk made successful his ongoing suit against OpenAI and its partner Microsoft. The lawsuit, revenge by Musk successful March, alleges that OpenAI had strayed from its original nonprofit ngo to create AI for nan nationalist bully (he withdrew it successful June 2024 without explanation, past refiled successful August 2024).

Today’s update from OpenAI attempts to antagonistic Musk’s communicative by offering grounds that he, not Altman, attempted to prehend powerfulness successful nan company’s early days — a nonstop consequence to Musk’s caller suit claims astir Altman’s powerfulness consolidation.

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