2024-12-16 12:34:00
THE war fresh in the middle Elon Musk Yes OpenAIcreator of ChatGPT, step up. The start of artificial intelligence This Friday he published a series of previously hidden emails revealing that the tech mogul tried to turn the research lab into a company with profit motive gain their “absolute control”.
In recent months, Musk has filed a total of four lawsuits against OpenAI, a company he co-founded in 2015 and abandoned in 2018, accusing his former partners of “tricking” him into replacing his nonprofit structure with a business model. “The perfidy and fraud are of Shakespearean proportions,” he said in a complaint filed in August. November 15 was expanded to add Microsoftthe company’s main financier, and ensure that both attempted to illegally monopolize the company Generative AI stifle competition.
Now OpenAI is unmasking the richest man in the world by publishing internal emails showing that in 2017 he supported the activity of the start-up that he is now denouncing. According to the company, Musk created a public benefit corporation in September 2017 and required his partners to become its CEO, hold a majority stake in its stock and gain “absolute” and “unilateral” control.
Complaints to stop ChatGPT
OpenAI’s board of directors, led by Sam Altmannrejected the conditions set by Musk. In January 2018 the tycoon attempted to merge the start-up Teslathe electric vehicle company he runs, and when it went bankrupt, he resigned as co-president of the company in February. AI.
in March 2019, OpenAI changed its structure to have two heads, one non-profit and one limited-profit. In November 2022, the company launched ChatGPT on the market, revolutionizing the market and kicking off an AI investment fever that has swept tech giants and countries around the world.
Shocked by this success, Musk signed a letter in March 2023 asking to paralyze the deployment of new AI tools for six months, alluding to “profound risks to humanity.” However, four months later it announced the launch of xAIhis artificial intelligence company. Last May, the company raised $6 billion to try to compete with ChatGPT, an effort that also explains her legal battle to slow the growth of the company she co-founded and which is now her main rival.
OpenAI’s line of business has generated turbulence within the company. In September, until then director, Mira Muratiand two other directors jumped ship as a restructuring is taking shape that will prioritize economic benefits to more easily attract investors. The change in direction directly benefits Altman, who begins to accumulate more power and could acquire a 7% stake in the company, shares valued at around $10.5 billion.