The tycoon Elon Musk yesterday resumed a lawsuit against OpenAI accusing its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, of betraying the founding mission of the technology-specialized company, Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This court case against the chatbot manufacturer ChatGPT is “a classic story of altruism versus greed,” alleges the lawsuit filed in federal court in the state of California.
“The perfidy and deceit are of Shakespearian proportions,” said Musk, who is also a patron of the red social X.
The filing of the complaint by the billionaire co-founder of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla and owner of the aerospace SpaceX comes nearly two months after he abruptly withdrew a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman, and Brockman.
Musk, who in 2018 left OpenAI, accuses the managers of the company based in San Francisco of fraud, conspiracy, and false advertising.
The lawsuit alleged that Musk originally invested in OpenAI in 2015 with the understanding that it would be a non-profit organization, but Altman “manipulated and deceived” him, and eventually joined forces with software giant Microsoft, its largest investor since 2019.