OpenAI: OpenAI contradicts allegations from Musk lawsuit

According to media reports, the ChatGPT developer company OpenAI defended itself against allegations from a lawsuit by tech billionaire Elon Musk in an email to employees. The manager responsible for strategy issues, Jason Kwon, contradicted, among other things, Musk’s claim that OpenAI is actually controlled by the major investor Microsoft. This was reported by the financial service Bloomberg and the website Axios .

The allegations may have been due to Musk’s regret that he was no longer involved with OpenAI, Kwon wrote. OpenAI has not yet commented publicly on the lawsuit.

Criticism of OpenAI’s profit orientation

Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI at the end of the week – a further escalation in his feud with OpenAI and company boss Sam Altman . The essence is that the company OpenAI, co-founded by Musk in 2015, has deviated from the agreed path of being a non-profit company whose research into artificial intelligence should benefit humanity. Major investor Microsoft in particular is now benefiting from this, according to the lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Thursday. This is a “flagrant violation” of the original founding agreement.

Musk, who left OpenAI after a few years, has long criticized OpenAI and Altman. Last year he founded his own AI company called X.AI, whose chatbot Grok competes with ChatGPT .

According to Axios , Kwon also contradicted Musk’s claim on Friday that the current AI technology GPT-4 is already a form of so-called general artificial intelligence. This is the name given to AI software that can not only complete individual, narrow tasks better than humans, but is generally superior to them. According to OpenAI’s internal rules, Microsoft is not allowed to have access to the company’s general artificial intelligence technology.

According to media reports, the ChatGPT developer company OpenAI defended itself against allegations from a lawsuit by tech billionaire Elon Musk in an email to employees. The manager responsible for strategy issues, Jason Kwon, contradicted, among other things, Musk’s claim that OpenAI is actually controlled by the major investor Microsoft. This was reported by the financial service Bloomberg and the website Axios .

The allegations may have been due to Musk’s regret that he was no longer involved with OpenAI, Kwon wrote. OpenAI has not yet commented publicly on the lawsuit.

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