Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over contract breach
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Elon Musk is suing Microsoft-backed OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, among others, alleging they abandoned the companys founding mission to develop artificial intelligence "for the benefit of humanity broadly." In a lawsuit filed on Thursday with a San Francisco court, Musks lawyers said the tech billionaire was approached in 2015 by Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and agreed to form a non-profit lab that would develop artificial general intelligence for the "benefit of humanity." In reality, however, OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft," the lawsuit filing said. The legal action pits two of the worlds most prominent tech leaders against each other at a time of extraordinary hype over the future of AI. The AI tool quickly became the fastest-growing consumer application in history and kickstarted the launch of rival chatbots from companies such as Google-parent Alphabet and Microsoft.
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