OpenAI is pushing back against Elon Musk’s latest attempt to rework his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence (AI) giant that seeks to prevent the company from moving to a for-profit structure, noting in a blog post and legal filing that Musk had argued for it to do so years ago.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 along with company CEO Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, Greg Brockman and others, split from the company in early 2018 after failing to secure control over the company as its majority shareholder and CEO and later attempting to convince its founders to merge it with Tesla. Musk founded xAI, a competitor to OpenAI, in March 2023.
In March 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI that argued it breached its founding mission as a not-for-profit company by creating a for-profit structure. OpenAI has pushed back on that lawsuit, which was withdrawn and refiled over the summer, and outlined …