The dramatic swimsuit between OpenAI and its estranged co-founder, billionaire Elon Musk, reveals no signal of letting up.
In a submitting Wednesday, attorneys for OpenAI and the opposite defendants within the case, together with CEO Sam Altman, referred to as for Musk to be enjoined from “additional illegal and unfair motion” and “held chargeable for the injury he has already induced” to the defendants.
“OpenAI is resilient,” reads the submitting. “But Musk’s actions have taken a toll. Should his marketing campaign persist, higher hurt is threatened — to OpenAI’s skill to control in service of its mission, to the relationships which might be important to furthering that mission, and to the general public curiosity […] Musk’s continued assaults on OpenAI, culminating most just lately within the pretend takeover bid designed to disrupt OpenAI’s future, should stop.”
Attorneys for Musk didn’t instantly reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.
Musk’s swimsuit in opposition to OpenAI accuses the startup of abandoning its nonprofit mission to make sure its AI analysis advantages all humanity. OpenAI was based as a nonprofit in 2015, however transformed to a “capped-profit” construction in 2019, and now seeks to restructure as soon as extra right into a public profit company.
Musk had sought a preliminary injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit. In March, a federal choose denied the request — however permitted the case to go to a jury trial in spring 2026.
Musk, as soon as a key supporter of OpenAI, is now maybe its biggest adversary. The stakes are excessive for OpenAI, which reportedly wants to finish its for-profit conversion by 2025 or relinquish among the capital it has raised in current months.
A gaggle of organizations, together with nonprofits and labor teams just like the California Teamsters, petitioned California Attorney General Rob Bonta this week to cease OpenAI from turning into a for-profit entity, claiming that the corporate “failed to guard its charitable property” and is actively “subverting its charitable mission to advance secure synthetic intelligence.”
Encode, the nonprofit group that co-sponsored California’s ill-fated SB 1047 AI security laws, voiced comparable considerations in an amicus temporary filed in December.
