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OpenAI\u00a0hit back at Elon Musk in a\u00a0blog post published<\/a>\u00a0on its site Tuesday, responding to a lawsuit by one of its\u00a0co-founders and former benefactors.\u00a0<\/p>\n Musk\u00a0filed the\u00a0lawsuit last week\u00a0<\/a>in San Francisco against the company, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman\u00a0and President Greg Brockman, alleging it had strayed from its mission to build responsible AI. In the post, OpenAI said that Musk was lashing out after trying and failing to make the company part of Tesla<\/a> Inc.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re sad that it\u2019s come to this with someone whom we\u2019ve deeply admired\u201d OpenAI wrote, \u201csomeone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI\u2019s mission without him.\u201d<\/p>\n The\u00a0billionaire Tesla CEO,\u00a0a co-founder of OpenAI who is no longer involved in the company, alleges in his suit that the startup\u2019s close relationship with\u00a0Microsoft Corp.<\/a>\u00a0has undermined its original mission of creating open-source technology free from undue corporate influence.<\/p>\n \u201cTo this day, OpenAI Inc.\u2019s website continues to profess that its charter is to ensure that AGI \u2018benefits all of humanity,\u2019\u201d the lawsuit said. \u201cIn reality, however, OpenAI Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to a type of AI that doesn\u2019t yet exist but that could, theoretically, perform a variety of tasks better than humans.<\/p>\n Musk is suing for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and claims of unfair business practices, among other grievances. He is bringing the suit in the capacity of a donor to the nonprofit parent organization as recently as 2019, and is seeking to force San Francisco-based OpenAI to stop benefitting Microsoft and Altman personally.<\/p>\n OpenAI did not comment publicly on Musk\u2019s suit when\u00a0it was originally\u00a0filed on Feb.\u00a029. But in an internal memo\u00a0reviewed by Bloomberg<\/a>, the company\u00a0said it \u201ccategorically disagrees\u201d with the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\nSubscribe to the Eye on AI newsletter to stay abreast of how AI is shaping the future of business. Sign up<\/a> for free.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n