Elon Musk sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing them of chasing profits
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Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman for breach of contract, alleging they have compromised the start-up's original mission of building artificial intelligence systems for the benefit of humanity.
In the lawsuit, filed to a San Francisco court on Thursday, Musk's lawyers wrote that OpenAI's multibillion-dollar alliance with Microsoft had broken an agreement to make a major breakthrough in AI freely available to the public."
Instead, the lawsuit said, OpenAI was working on proprietary technology to maximize profits for literally the largest company in the world."