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Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman three months after accusing them of jeopardizing the start-up's original mission to profit humanity.
The billionaire owner of X and Tesla CEO filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss his breach of contract claims in a San Francisco court on Tuesday. The motion didn’t specify the explanation for the dismissal.
In March, Musk sued the $86 billion startup behind the favored chatbot ChatGPT, claiming the multi-billion dollar alliance with Microsoft broke an agreement to make a serious breakthrough in artificial intelligence “available to the general public free of charge.” He said OpenAI was working on “proprietary technology to maximise profits for literally the biggest company on the earth.”
OpenAI denied his claims, calling them “incoherent” and “frivolous.” In March, the corporate published a blog post that included several emails from Musk from the corporate's early days that appeared to indicate him acknowledging that the ChatGPT maker had to lift large sums of cash to fund the computing resources needed to develop AI models.
Musk has had a long-standing feud with Altman. He co-founded the corporate in 2015 and donated $44 million to the group, but left OpenAI's board in 2018 after disagreeing with Altman over the direction of research. A 12 months later, the group founded the for-profit division, through which Microsoft has invested.
Musk founded his own AI startup, xAI, last 12 months and raised $6 billion from enterprise capital and sovereign wealth funds this 12 months to fuel its development, while repeatedly warning in regards to the dangers of the technology, calling it an “existential threat” to humanity last 12 months.
Earlier this week, he criticized a brand new partnership between OpenAI and Apple in a post on X, saying Apple devices can be banned at his firms if the startup's technology was integrated into iPhones.
“Visitors must leave their Apple devices on the door, where they can be stored in a Faraday cage,” he wrote.
OpenAI declined to comment. Musk didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.
