Musk seeks injunction to stop OpenAI morphing into for-profit company

Elon Musk has filed for an injunction against OpenAI co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, broadly designed to prevent the GenAI poster child from shifting towards an entirely for-profit business.

The businessman and political advisor has been pursuing a legal battle against the ChatGPT maker, linked to Microsoft by a $13 billion investment pipeline.

Last month, Musk added Microsoft to the list of defendants in his long-running legal dispute with OpenAI, claiming among other things that it had moved away from its original non-profit and open technology mission.

OpenAI told us at the time: "Elon's third attempt in less than a year to reframe his claims is even more baseless and overreaching than the previous ones. His prior emails continue to speak for themselves."

The new legal filing [PDF] asks for an injunction to prevent OpenAI and a number of other linked parties from activities such as investing in OpenAI's competitors, obtaining sensitive information about the relationship between the Microsoft and OpenAI board, "furthering the conversion of OpenAI to a for-profit enterprise," and allowing OpenAI to do business with entities in which any of the defendants have a financial interest.

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