Elon Musk has amended his lawsuit against OpenAI to include additional antitrust claims against the company and to add Microsoft as a defendant. He also added his company xAI and Siobhan Gillis, a former OpenAI board member and mother of three, as plaintiffs. Musk originally sued OpenAI in March, accusing founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of violating the organization’s nonprofit mission by partnering with Microsoft. After dropping his state court case in June, he sued OpenAI and Altman again in federal court.
Musk was one of OpenAI’s early backers, and one of his claims was that he was “betrayed by Altman and his accomplices.” In response to his lawsuit, OpenAI published old emails from 2015 to 2018 in a blog post in which it said Musk was involved in planning the transition to a for-profit organization when he first considered it. insisted. xAI’s founders want a majority stake, control of the initial board, the CEO position, and are said to have even proposed a merger between OpenAI and Tesla. Musk left the organization in 2018, before Microsoft made its first $1 billion investment in OpenAI. Since then, Microsoft has invested $13 billion in the generative AI company, and OpenAI has taken steps to complete its transformation into a more traditional for-profit company with a nonprofit sector.
As TechCrunch points out, the amended complaint alleges that OpenAI is “actively seeking to exclude competitors,” including xAI, by forcing investors to promise not to provide funding. There is. The complaint also says that xAI has been harmed by OpenAI and Microsoft’s exclusive exchange of “competitively sensitive information.” Musk’s new complaint also names LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Microsoft Vice President Dee Templeton as defendants for their involvement with both OpenAI and Microsoft’s board of directors. Zilis was named as a plaintiff, the lawsuit says, because a former director of OpenAI and current director of Neuralink repeatedly expressed concerns about OpenAI transactions similar to Musk’s.
