{"id":231168,"date":"2024-06-12T00:10:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/musk-withdraws-his-breach-of-contract-lawsuit-against-openai\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:17:19","slug":"musk-withdraws-his-breach-of-contract-lawsuit-against-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/12\/musk-withdraws-his-breach-of-contract-lawsuit-against-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk withdraws his breach of contract lawsuit against OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Elon Musk <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/06\/11\/elon-musk-drops-suit-against-openai-and-sam-altman.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:dropped a lawsuit;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">dropped a lawsuit<\/a> against OpenAI one day before a judge in California state court was set to hear OpenAI\u2019s request for dismissal. Musk\u2019s suit, which was filed in February, had accused OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of violating the company\u2019s non-profit status and instead prioritizing profits over using AI to help humanity.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.courthousenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/musk-v-altman-openai-complaint-sf.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:35-page suit;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:2;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">35-page suit<\/a>, Musk <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/elon-musk-sues-openai-and-sam-altman-for-allegedly-ditching-non-profit-mission-160722736.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:had alleged;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:3;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">had alleged<\/a> that OpenAI had become a \u201cclosed-source de facto subsidiary\u201d of Microsoft, which invested $13 billion in the company and owns a 49 percent stake. Microsoft uses OpenAI\u2019s technology to power Copilot, the company\u2019s generative AI tools that are deeply integrated in products like Windows and Office.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI had <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-06-11\/musk-drops-suit-accusing-openai-of-breaching-founding-mission?srnd=technology-vp&amp;sref=10lNAhZ9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reportedly;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:4;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">reportedly<\/a> requested for the lawsuit to be dismissed, arguing that Musk would use any information that emerged as a result to get access to the company\u2019s \u201cproprietary records and technology.\u201d The company had also said that there was no founding agreement for it to breach.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI and Musk\u2019s lawyer, Alex Spiro, did not respond to a request for comment from Engadget.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who was one of the founders of OpenAI in 2015, left the company three years later after disagreements over the direction of the organization. He runs xAI an AI startup that makes Grok, a ChatGPT rival that is built into X and is available for paid users. xAI <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.ai\/blog\/series-b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:recently raised;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:5;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">recently raised<\/a> a $6 billion funding round from top investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Musk <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/hey-elon-go-ahead-and-ban-apple-devices-211521967.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:6;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">said<\/a> that he would ban Apple devices from his company\u2019s after Apple integrated ChatGPT in its operating systems through a partnership with OpenAI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/musk-withdraws-his-breach-of-contract-lawsuit-against-openai-221316519.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Elon Musk dropped a lawsuit against OpenAI one day before a judge in California state court was set to hear OpenAI\u2019s request for dismissal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}