Elon Musk is escalating his feud with Sam Altman, alleging in a court filing that OpenAI is trying to capture the market for generative artificial intelligence and is sacrificing security in the race to get ahead Is.
In a revised version of the lawsuit filed in August, Musk highlighted antitrust concerns about OpenAI’s journey from its nonprofit roots in 2015 — when he and Altman worked together as founders — to billions of Following dollars in outside investment by Microsoft and others for its current effort to restructure as a profitable company.
Musk, who launched his Tries to complete its restructuring under limits.
“Microsoft and OpenAI, apparently dissatisfied with their monopoly in generative artificial intelligence (“AI”), are now actively trying to eliminate competitors like XAI by promising investors not to fund them,” K. The lawyer wrote in an amended complaint filed late Thursday in federal court in Oakland, California.
OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours. In October, it called Musk’s federal lawsuit – which followed a state-court suit that Musk had dropped – the latest bid in “a rapidly expanding campaign to harass OpenAI for its own competitive advantage.” .
The amended lawsuit lists 26 legal claims and spans 107 pages, compared to 15 claims in the original 83-page complaint.
Thursday’s filing adds California Attorney General Rob Bonta as a defendant. Bloomberg News reported this month that the company is in early talks with Bonta’s office on the process of changing its corporate structure.
Representatives from Bonta’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment outside regular business hours.
To support his claim that OpenAI is becoming more anti-competitive, Musk said in the filing that the company “attempted to starve competitors of AI talent by aggressively recruiting employees with hefty compensation offers And is on track to spend $1.5 billion just on personnel.” 1,500 employees.”
Musk also expressed concern that OpenAI “has begun contracting with the Department of Defense” and removed a clause from its usage policies that bars “activity that has a high risk of physical harm” such as “weapons development”. Places restrictions on the use of its technology. “Military and War.”
According to the filing, “groups” of security researchers are resigning in protest, or being forced to, and security teams have been disbanded, “all to make way for ‘security’ personnel whose The real job is to facilitate military contracting.
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