Because of alliance with Microsoft
Elon Musk is suing ChatGPT developer OpenAI
March 1, 2024, 2:30 p.m
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Tesla founder Musk is suing OpenAI and its boss Sam Altmann because of their alliance with Microsoft. He accuses the company of now essentially being a subsidiary of the technology giant.
Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman. That’s what she reports “Financial Times”. Musk accuses both actors of saying that the ChatGPT manufacturer’s billion-dollar alliance with Microsoft runs counter to the start-up’s original mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity.
Tesla founder Musk’s lawyers write that OpenAI has developed into a de facto subsidiary of Microsoft. “Under the new board, artificial intelligence will not only be developed but refined to maximize profits for Microsoft rather than for the benefit of humanity.” The tech billionaire was one of the co-founders of OpenAI in 2015, when the company was founded as a non-profit organization dedicated to the safe development of artificial intelligence.
However, Musk left OpenAI’s board three years later, shortly before the start-up launched a for-profit arm in which Microsoft invested around $13 billion. The alliance is currently being examined by competition authorities in the USA, the EU and Great Britain. Microsoft President Brad Smith said this week that the companies are “very important partners” but that “Microsoft does not control OpenAI.”
It was recently announced that OpenAI boss Sam Altman apparently wants to reshape the global semiconductor industry. According to insiders, he is in talks with investors, including the government of the United Arab Emirates, to raise funds for a very ambitious technology initiative. The money will be used to increase global chip manufacturing capacity and expand the ability to use AI. The cost of the project is estimated at several trillion dollars – specifically, between five trillion and seven trillion dollars could be needed, said one of the informants.