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The tech mogul has accused his former startup co-founder of carrying out an \u201cillicit for-profit conversion\u201d of the artificial intelligence firm<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Tech billionaire Elon Musk is seeking to have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman fired as part of his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence giant, court documents filed on Tuesday show.<\/p>\n

The mogul sued OpenAI in 2024, accusing it of defrauding him of $38 million in initial funding he contributed when co-founding the company in 2015, under the understanding that it would remain a nonprofit. The AI startup, valued at $852 billion, restructured late last year, and is now run as a nonprofit that holds a 26% stake in its for-profit arm, which includes ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s lawyers are seeking to \u201cstrip Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of their positions of authority and the personal financial benefits they extracted from OpenAI\u2019s illicit for-profit operations and conversion,\u201d<\/em> according to the latest filing.<\/p>\n

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Both arms of OpenAI also need to honor commitments to \u201csafety-first AI development and open research for the broad benefit of humanity,\u201d<\/em> Musk\u2019s legal team said. Any damages awarded would go to the AI company\u2019s nonprofit arm, according to the amended complaint. The case is set to go to trial later this month.<\/p>\n

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US to integrate Musk\u2019s Grok AI into classified military systems \u2013 media<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

OpenAI has in turn accused Musk of attempting to discredit the company through \u201cwholly unfounded allegations,\u201d<\/em> and has reportedly alleged that he is colluding with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to undermine competition.<\/p>\n

Musk left OpenAI in 2018 due to disagreements with Altman, bought Twitter (now X) in 2022, and launched his own artificial intelligence firm xAI the following year.<\/p>\n

In February, xAI and OpenAI announced deals with the Pentagon to integrate their artificial intelligence tools into the US military\u2019s classified systems. Altman claimed that his company agreed to cooperate under the condition that its tools would not be used for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n

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New AI too dangerous for public release \u2013 Anthropic<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

However, these same two conditions have been non-negotiable for the Pentagon in its row with Anthropic, the US military\u2019s previous go-to for AI needs. The US Department of War officially designated Anthropic a supply chain risk<\/a> that threatens national security, after the tech company refused to remove safeguards from its Claude model.<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s newest AI model is \u201cextremely autonomous,\u201d<\/em> can reason like an advanced security researcher and is far too powerful for public release, the company claimed on Wednesday, as it continues to fight the Pentagon in court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The tech mogul has accused his former startup co-founder of carrying out an \u201cillicit for-profit conversion\u201d of the artificial intelligence firm Tech billionaire Elon Musk is seeking to have OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman fired as part of his lawsuit against the artificial intelligence giant, court documents filed on Tuesday show. 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