Billionaire Elon Musk revived a lawsuit against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday, saying that the firm put profits and commercial interests ahead of the public good.
The lawsuit marks Musk’s latest attempt to oppose the startup he co-founded in 2015 and left three years later. Since his exit, OpenAI has gone on to become the face of generative AI, while Musk started another rival startup, xAI, last year that was valued at $24 billion in May.
The latest lawsuit seeks a judicial determination that OpenAI’s license to Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab to use its AI models is null and void. Musk also contends that the language models are outside the scope of OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft.
Filed in the Court for the Northern District of California, the suit is similar to the one Musk filed in February before withdrawing it in June without any explanation just a day before a judge was set to hear OpenAI’s bid to dismiss the lawsuit.
