OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend the 54th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on January 18, 2024.
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Elon Musk is suing Microsoft-backed OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman and others over the company's founding mission to develop artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity at large.” claims to have abandoned it.
In a lawsuit filed Thursday in a San Francisco court, Musk's lawyers say the tech billionaire was approached by Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman in 2015. , “agreed to establish a non-profit research institute to develop artificial general intelligence for the benefit of humanity.'' ”
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015, resigned from the company's board in 2018, four years after saying AI was “potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons.”
“To this day, OpenAI, Inc.'s website continues to proclaim that its charter is to ensure that AGI benefits all humanity.” But in reality, OpenAI, Inc. has become a de facto, closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, the world's largest technology company,” the lawsuit states.
Musk's lawyers said in the lawsuit that OpenAI's focus on maximizing Microsoft's profits violates that agreement.
“Under our new board of directors, we are not only developing AGI, but actually improving it, to maximize Microsoft's profits rather than for the benefit of humanity,” the filing states. .
OpenAI and Microsoft could not be reached for comment.
Musk's lawyers say the lawsuit is aimed at “compelling OpenAI to abide by its founding agreement and developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for personal benefit to individual defendants or the world's largest technology companies.” “It was submitted in order to bring us back to our mission of…
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Microsoft, which is facing intense scrutiny from EU antitrust regulators over its $13 billion investment in OpenAI, recently announced a new partnership with French startup Mistral AI.
The US technology giant announced on Monday that it is investing in the company, seen as Europe's answer to OpenAI, to unlock “new commercial opportunities” and expand into global markets.
Amid extraordinary hype about the future of AI, this lawsuit pits two of the world's most prominent technology leaders against each other.
Since its debut in November 2022, ChatGPT, OpenAI's chatbot, has taken the world by storm. The AI tool quickly became the fastest-growing consumer application in history and sparked the launch of rival chatbots by companies such as Google's parent company Alphabet and Microsoft.
Mr. Musk and Mr. Altman have both been making headlines. Musk, considered the world's richest man, runs electric car maker Tesla and rocket and satellite maker SpaceX, which he acquired in October 2022 for $44 billion. Musk recently reported on advances in brain chip technology implants made by his own startup, Neuralink.
Meanwhile, Altman's relationship with OpenAI has been rocky. He was abruptly fired from the company last November, sending shockwaves through the tech industry. The American entrepreneur, one of the architects of the AI boom, returned to the company a few days later.
