Elon Musk - OpenAI Legal Fight Escalates; As Fired Twitter Execs Sue The X Owner
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI, on Tuesday, responded to the lawsuit filed against it by Elon Musk, claiming the co-founder previously backed the idea of a for-profit structure and even suggested a merger with his car firm Tesla.
"We're sad that it's come to this with someone whom we've deeply admired - someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI's mission without him," OpenAI said in a blog.
Musk has in his lawsuit, accused the artificial intelligence company of abandoning its original mission of helping humanity and is instead focusing on generating profits for partner and major investor Microsoft. The lawsuit had targeted fellow co-founders and executives including chief executive Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever.
The blog written by Altman, Brockman and Sutskever disputes a number of claims made in the lawsuit; and published few email correspondence from Musk. It claims that in early 2018 he had forwarded an email saying OpenAI should join up with his electric car company, Tesla, to use it as its "cash cow."
"As we discussed a for-profit structure in order to further the mission, Elon wanted us to merge with Tesla or he wanted full control," the blog post adds.
Responding, Musk trolled OpenAI on X; replying to a post by the AI company, he wrote "Change your name To ClosedAI and I will drop the lawsuit."
The X owner later posted a meme of Altman: 'ClosedAI.' In another post Musk wrote: "OpenA needs to stop living a lie."
Elon Musk Sued By Fired Twitter(Now X) Executives
The dispute with OpenAI comes as Musk is facing another lawsuit filed by several former Twitter(now X) executives on Monday alleging that he illegally tried to avoid paying them severance totaling roughly $128 million.
The executives claim the now X owner “uses his wealth and power to run roughshod over anyone who disagrees with him.” The lawsuit was brought by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, former CFO Ned Segal, and former Twitter lawyers Vijaya Gadde and Sean Edgett.
Musk officially acquired then Twitter in October 2022 for $44 billion, and fired many of the woke executives who had forced him in a Delaware court to go through with the purchase.
The X owner said he fired the executives “for cause,” believing he wouldn’t need to pay huge severance packages.
The past management of then Twitter has been widely criticized for poorly running the social media company which was never profitable, and was more focused on censorship and far-left political activism.