5 months ago
22
SAN FRANSISCO: Elon Musk has dropped his
lawsuit
against
OpenAI
just ahead of a scheduled on Wednesday hearing on the case. Musk in Feb sued the San Francisco AI company and its CEO
Sam Altman
over what he said was a
betrayal
of the ChatGPT maker's founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.
No explanation was given for why it was being dropped.
In the lawsuit filed in Feb, Musk said when he bankrolled OpenAI's creation, he secured an agreement with Altman and Greg Brockman, the president, to keep the company as a nonprofit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public and keep its code open instead of walling it off for private gain. However, by embracing a close relationship with Microsoft, OpenAI and its top executives set that pact "aflame", Musk alleged in the lawsuit.
Most of the legal experts said that Musk's claims were unlikely to succeed in court.
