Elon Musk sues OpenAI

Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and two of its founders, including Sam Altman. He claimed that the ChatGPT-maker betrayed its founding aims of benefiting the public good rather than pursuing profits. The lawsuit filed, called Musk's case a textbook tale of altruism versus greed. The complaint stated that Altman and others named in the suit intentionally courted and deceived Musk Altman, preying on the latter’s humanitarian concern about the existential dangers posed by artificial intelligence.

Musk was an early investor in OpenAI when it was founded in 2015 and co-chaired its board alongside Altman.

In the lawsuit, Musk said he invested tens of millions of dollars and recruited top AI research scientists for OpenAI. Musk resigned from the board in early 2018, during which time OpenAI said that the move would prevent conflicts of interest as he was recruiting AI talent to build self-driving technology at the electric car maker.

The Tesla CEO dropped his previous lawsuit against OpenAI without explanation in June. The previous lawsuit alleged that when Musk bankrolled OpenAI's creation, and secured an agreement with Altman and Brockman to keep the AI company as a nonprofit that would develop technology for the benefit of the public and keep its code open.

In March, OpenAI released emails from Musk showing his earlier support for making it a for-profit company.

Musk claims in the new suit that he and OpenAI's namesake objective were betrayed by Altman and his accomplices.