Openai asked a Federal Court on Wednesday to prevent Elon Musk from attacking him unjustly through a high profile cause that presented last year, the last move in a bitter feud between the artificial intelligence start-up and the richest man in the world.
In a deposit at the Federal Court of San Francisco, Openii said that Mr. Musk “made his project to break down Openi”. The company asked that the technological billionaire was prevented from taking “further illegal and unjust actions” against Openi and asked the court to consider Mr. Musk responsible for any damage that the company caused.
The deposit was another sign of acrimony between Mr. Musk, who was a founder of Openi, and the company on the direction of rapidly evolving technology. In August, Mr. Musk sued Openi and two of his founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, claiming that they were putting the company’s commercial interests and artificial intelligence in front of the public good with technology.
In a declaration, Openii said: “Elon continues to use tactics of bad faith in an attempt to slow down Openi to his personal benefit. These efforts are anti -agrencial and go against our mission, which is why we presented a counters today to stop them”.
Mr. Musk and his lawyer did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
(The New York Times sued Openi and his partner, Microsoft, accusing them of copyright violation regarding the contents of news relating to artificial intelligence systems. Openai and Microsoft have denied these statements.)
Mr. Musk contributed to creating Openai as a non -profit organization at the end of 2015, together with Mr. Altman and others. But that partnership brought after a battle to control the company and the evolution of the AI, with Mr. Musk who left the organization. Since then, Openii has released chatgpt and became an important artificial intelligence player with hundreds of millions of users. Altman has collected billions of dollars for Openai to build artificial intelligence technologies.
Last year, Openii started working on a plan to move the company’s control from non -profit to Openi’s investors. Shortly thereafter, Musk sued Openii, Altman and Brockman, claiming that they were violating the founding contract of the company by putting commercial interests in front of the public good.
This year, Mr. Musk and a consortium of investors have offered to buy the non -profit activities that controls Openi for over $ 97 billion. The Board of Directors of Openi rejected the offer.
In Wednesday’s archive, Openii described Mr. Musk’s offer for the company as “false” and said he had misrepresented the company’s efforts to change his company structure.
“Musk takes revenge on the false statement that Openi is planning to” convert “by a non -profit organization in a profit for profit,” said the deposit.
Openai said that it provides for renovating as a company of public benefits, or PBC, which is a profit for profit designed to create public and social good.
With a separate move on Wednesday, a non -profit coalition, Labor and other philanthropic leaders presented a petition to the Prosecutor General of California, Rob Bonta, to investigate Openi’s attempt to convert the company into a company of public benefits.