Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI accusing the company of abandoning its non-profit mission was withdrawn in July, only to be revived in August

Musk’s amended lawsuit against OpenAI names Microsoft as defendant

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2024-11-15 17:00:07

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI accusing the company of abandoning its non-profit mission was withdrawn in July, only to be revived in August. Now, in an amended complaint, the suit names new defendants including Microsoft, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, and former OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton.

The amended filing also adds new plaintiffs: Neuralink exec and ex-OpenAI board member Shivon Zilis and Musk’s AI company, xAI.

Musk was one of the original founders of OpenAI, which was meant to research and develop AI for the benefit of humanity, and was established as a non-profit originally. He left the company in 2018 after disagreements about its direction.

Musk has argued in previous suits that he’s been defrauded out of more than $44 million he says he donated to OpenAI by preying on his “well-known concerns about the existential harms” of the technology. He’s also accused OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman of “rampant self-dealing” between OpenAI and other companies in which Altman’s involved — to Altman’s personal gain.

In the newly filed complaint, lawyers for Musk argue OpenAI is now “actively trying to eliminate competitors” like xAI by “extracting promises from investors not to fund them.” It’s also allegedly unfairly benefitting from Microsoft’s infrastructure and expertise in what Musk’s counsel describes in the filing as a “de facto merger.”

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