Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who owns Tesla, SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), etc., sued OpenAI, a non-profit corporation developing AI.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI, wants it to go nonprofit again | Mashable
OpenAI started as a non-profit organization in 2015, and Musk was involved in its launch as one of the main investors at the time.
OpenAI, a non-profit research organization for artificial intelligence that prevents the misuse of robots, will be established by prominent entrepreneurs and investors in the IT industry – GIGAZINE
In 2018, Mr. Musk proposed that he buy the organization and directly manage and operate it, saying, “OpenAI is fatally behind Google in the field of AI development.” However, the proposal was rejected by OpenAI’s management team at the time, and Mr. Musk ultimately resigned from the organization’s board of directors.
It was discovered that Elon Musk was trying to acquire OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, in 2018 – GIGAZINE
OpenAI then became a commercial company in 2019. Furthermore, in 2023, ChatGPT, a chat AI, was released, becoming widely known to the public and receiving billions of dollars (hundreds of billions of yen) in investment from Microsoft.
Microsoft announces that it has invested hundreds of billions of yen in OpenAI and entered into a long-term partnership – GIGAZINE
Mr. Musk has always expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that OpenAI was originally a non-profit organization, but has since become a for-profit company. I still don’t understand how the nonprofit organization that donated the money somehow became a for-profit organization with a market capitalization of 30 billion dollars (approximately 4.5 trillion yen).If this is legal, why doesn’t everyone do it? Right?” he criticized the organization.
I’m still confused as to how a non-profit to which I donated ~$100M somehow became a $30B market cap for-profit. If this is legal, why doesn’t everyone do it?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk)
Then, on the night of February 29, 2024 local time, Mr. Musk sued OpenAI in San Francisco Superior Court. In the complaint, Musk claims that OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman are the founders of OpenAI, a non-profit organization that develops open source AGI (artificial general intelligence) He claims to have set up an organization “for profit.” He further claims, “However, in reality, OpenAI has turned into a de facto closed-source subsidiary of Microsoft, the world’s largest technology company.”
The complaint focuses on GPT-4, a large-scale language model (LLM) developed by OpenAI. OpenAI claims that GPT-4 is “better at reasoning than the average human,” but Musk says, “GPT-4 is not open source software and is primarily a product of Microsoft’s proprietary commercial interests.” “It has become a closed-source software for people to contribute to.”
Furthermore, the complaint states that in November 2023, Sam Altman was effectively fired and then rehired, with most members of OpenAI’s board of directors resigning. He also claims that he is a member blessed by Microsoft. Furthermore, regarding OpenAI’s new board, “the new board members lack substantive AI expertise and, with respect to information and belief, whether and when OpenAI has achieved AGI, i.e. “By design, we lack the ability to make independent judgments about whether we have developed algorithms that are not licensed by Microsoft.”
Mr. Musk asked the court to force OpenAI back into being a nonprofit organization that develops open source software and prevent Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman from using OpenAI or its assets for financial gain; They called for an order prohibiting the use of OpenAI for the benefit of Microsoft and other entities.
Additionally, in his complaint, Mr. Musk asks the court to determine whether “GPT-4 is AGI and outside the scope of OpenAI’s license to Microsoft.”
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2024-03-03 04:00:00
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