He also added to the lawsuit charges of violating federal antitrust laws and other charges.
Musk’s amended lawsuit, which was filed Thursday evening in a federal court in Oakland, California, stated that Microsoft and OpenAI sought without legal basis to monopolize the generative artificial intelligence market and marginalize competitors.
As stated in Musk’s original lawsuit in August, the amended lawsuit charges OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for violating the provisions of the contract under which the company was founded by putting profits before the public good in its effort to develop… artificial intelligence Although it is declared a non-profit company.
“Never before has a company transformed from a tax-exempt charitable foundation into a market-crippling, for-profit company whose value reached $157 billion in just eight years,” Musk said in the lawsuit.
The lawsuit seeks to revoke OpenAI’s license with Microsoft and force it to dispose of “ill-gotten” gains.
Old disagreements
OpenAI said in a statement that the latest lawsuit is “baseless and more invasive than previous lawsuits.” As for Microsoft, it refused to comment.
“Practices have escalated,” Musk’s lawyer, Mark Toberoff, said in a statement Microsoft Anti-competition: sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
Musk has long-standing disagreements with OpenAI, a startup he co-founded that has since become the face of generative AI through multibillion-dollar backing from Microsoft.
The expanded lawsuit stated that OpenAI and Microsoft violated antitrust law by conditioning investment opportunities on agreements not to deal with the companies’ competitors. It said the companies’ exclusive licensing agreement amounts to a merger that lacks regulatory approvals.
In a filing submitted to the court last month, OpenAI accused Musk of prosecuting it as part of an “increasingly aggressive campaign to restrict OpenAI to maintain its competitive advantage.”
