Tesla and X owner Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and several others in the company, including its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Sam Altman. According to a lawsuit filed Thursday in San Francisco, Musk accuses OpenAI, including Altman, of breaching contractual agreements he made when he helped found ChatGPT-Maker in 2015.
The suit says Altman approached Musk about forming an open source, non-profit company with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman. This company develops Artificial Intelligence technology for the benefit of humans.
Musk's lawyers said in the lawsuit that the agreement was broken due to Microsoft-backed company OpenAI's focus on making profits. However, till now no statement has come from OpenAI, Microsoft and Musk on this lawsuit. Musk, along with Altman, created OpenAI in 2015. However, Musk resigned from the company's board in 2018.
ChatGPT is a chatbot from OpenAI, which was launched in November 2022. ChatGPT became the fastest growing software application in the world within six months of its launch. ChatGPT also promoted the launch of competing chatbots from Microsoft, Alphabet, and several startups.
Since its launch, ChatGPT has been adopted by many companies for a variety of tasks, from summarizing their documents to writing computer code. Due to which the competition has started among big tech companies to launch their offerings based on Generative AI.
