Elon Musk Declares “Altruism Vs. Greed” War Against OpenAI & Ex-Partner Sam Altman, Again

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EXCLUSIVE: Not a day seems to go by that Elon Musk isn’t being sued or threatening to sue someone, but now the X/Twitter owner is back in a legal war with OpenAI, with a twist.

Former OpenAI co-founder Musk will square off anew with his old partners CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman in federal court in a just filed suit that might be one of the biggest tests of the wild growth of the OpenAI venture and the hundreds of billions on the table. “The perfidy and deceit is of Shakespearean proportions,” declares the fraud and breach of contract filing this morning in the court docket in the Northern District of California. “Once OpenAI’s technology approached AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), Altman and his accomplices flipped the script,” the unspecified multi-damages complaint adds. “OpenAI’s focus shifted from its advertised charitable purpose – to benefit the public and protect humanity – to a vehicle for Altman and his partners’ self-enrichment.

This is most clearly evidenced in OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft and the proliferation of an opaque web of for-profit OpenAI affiliates, recently valued at a whopping $100 billion.” Musk, who put millions into the 2015 forming of OpenAI to stop Google’s potential AI dominance, is seeking a jury trial.

If you are experiencing some déjà vu here, let’s just say this courtroom clash was expected. Earlier this year, as OpenAI was in the midst of a prolonged boardroom battle, billionaire Musk hit the Bay Area-based generative AI company with a California suit demanding it cease going for the big bucks and “return to its mission to develop AGI for the benefit of humanity.” In response to the March breach of contract action in state court, OpenAI said “were this case