Elon Musk revives lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman in federal court
Elon Musk has revived a lawsuit against Sam Altman in federal court, alleging that he was manipulated into co-founding OpenAI.
Elon Musk has revived a lawsuit against Sam Altman in federal court, alleging that the Tesla boss was manipulated into co-founding OpenAI, according to a court filing published Monday.
The crux of Musk’s claims center around his view that he was “courted and deceived” by Altman and current OpenAI President Greg Brockman into co-founding the artificial intelligence firm on the basis that it was a nonprofit.
After Musk came on board and invested millions of dollars, the lawsuit claims he was “betrayed by Altman and his accomplices” as they, along with Microsoft, “established an opaque web of for-profit OpenAI affiliates, engaged in rampant self-dealing.”
“The perfidy and deceit are of Shakespearean proportions,” the lawsuit alleges.
The claims in the new lawsuit are similar to another lawsuit filed by Musk against OpenAI and Altman in California this year, which the Tesla and SpaceX boss ultimately dropped.
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