OpenAI Hits Back at Elon Musk’s Lawsuit by Publishing His Emails

OpenAI on Tuesday slammed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the organization and released a trove of emails purportedly sent by the billionaire showing that he backed the creation of a for-profit entity.

Musk filed a suit against the ChatGPT maker last week, accusing the research lab and its CEO Sam Altman of betraying OpenAI’s original mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. OpenAI now says it intends “to move to dismiss all of Elon’s claims,” further accusing Musk of ditching the company and setting up his own rival after he’d tried and failed to take control of OpenAI himself.

Musk, who helped to get OpenAI off the ground in 2015, claimed in his suit that Altman and others had reneged on a foundational agreement that the company’s research would be “freely available to the public” by becoming a “de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft.” Microsoft has invested a reported $13 billion in OpenAI’s for-profit arm.

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