The billionaire filed an injunction against OpenAI to prevent the company from completing its transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit company.
There is competition, but there is also a personal matter remained pending and now Elon Musk wants to put a stop to it. The war between them has been going on for years the billionaire and OpenAIa leading company in the artificial intelligence sector. The latest move was a motion presented on November 29th. Musk’s lawyers asked the judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California to issue an injunction against OpenAIpreventing the company from completing its transition from a non-profit organization to a for-profit company.
The injunction would also prevent OpenAI from asking its investors to Don’t fund the competitiontherefore also Musk’s company, xAI. Not only that, according to Musk’s lawyers OpenAI would have benefited from “sensitive information obtained competitively”, thanks to his team agreements with Microsoft.
“Microsoft and OpenAI now try to cement this dominance cutting off competitors’ access to investment capital (a group boycott), continuing to benefit from years of shared information and competitively sensitive during a formative period for generative AI,” Musk’s lawyers explained.
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The long war between Musk and Open AI
As he explained to Fapage.it Alessandro Aresuscientific advisor to Limes, Musk was the creator of OpenAI, the person who invested the initial funds and involved key figures, among these Ilya Sutskever. “At a certain point in history it became impossible for OpenAI to continue as a non-profit, and Musk tried to lead the project under the hat of Tesla. Instead, he was essentially screwed, in a substantial, not legal sense, by the evolution promoted by Sam Altman, who is the decisive agreement with Microsoft.“
After the success of ChatGPT in 2022, Musk decides to invest in artificial intelligence. Launches xAI in July 2023, and releases its Grok chatbot. On the one hand, Musk “wants to position Tesla as an artificial intelligence company, so that the company has a greater valuation, both because it has a personal matter with OpenAI. This controversy haunts him given that Musk, accustomed to great successes, he doesn’t know how to lose“, explains Aresu.
Musk’s personal revenge
The war between Musk and OpenAI has been going on for years and now the new role assumed by Musk could be decisive. The billionaire in fact during the elections he supported and supportedeven economically, the Republican Party. His support was publicly acknowledged by Trump, who during his speech called Musk “one of the most important people in the country” and entrusted him with the leadership of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge).
As Aresu explains, the new role could also be used to avenge personal issues. “I think that Musk in some way really wants to hit OpenAI from a legal point of view, bog down its operations, put it on the sidelines of the political discussion on artificial intelligence in the United States, that is, in the world. It’s not a concern for humanity or anything like that that these entrepreneurs feed to us, which are always false and hypocritical. In this case it’s really a personal question.”
