Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Elon Musk has decided to withdraw his lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman. Open AI was criticized for deviating from its original mission of developing AI that benefits humanity, not profit.
According to documents filed in San Francisco Superior Court on June 11, Musk’s lawyers requested that the breach of contract lawsuit be dropped without prejudice.
A dismissal without prejudice means the case won’t be dismissed for good and Musk can file the lawsuit again at a later date.
It comes a day before a federal judge will decide whether to dismiss the case or proceed to the next step, previous court filings show.
Musk did not provide a statement about his decision to drop the lawsuit.
Musk sued OpenAI and Altman for breach of contract on February 29, 2024, claiming that the ChatGPT creator company had deviated from its original mission to develop large-scale language models for “the good of humanity, not profit.”
His complaint specifically concerns tech giants Microsoft and OpenAI’s choice to collaborate on building artificial general intelligence (AGI) technology and release ChatGPT-4 in a closed-source manner.
At the time, Musk called on OpenAI to return to open source principles and requested an injunction to prevent commercial use of AGI technology.
Musk also filed a complaint against OpenAI for breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices.
Related: Elon Musk sets new record for Nvidia AI chip shipments.
The billionaire’s latest take on OpenAI includes a partnership with Apple, which will see ChatGPT integrated into the iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems.
Musk argued that Apple’s decision was an “unacceptable security breach” for Apple users who entrusted the protection and security of their personal information to third parties such as OpenAI.
However, Apple claims that user IP addresses will still be obscured and that OpenAI will not store data requests.
Apple talks about the ‘privacy promise’ of Apple Intelligence, emphasizing that “we know your personal data without collecting it.”
Last November, Musk helped launch Grok, an AI chatbot aimed at competing with ChatGPT.
xAI, the company behind Grok, secured $6 billion in funding in late May from sources including Valor Equity Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital and Fidelity Management & Research Company.
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