In response to Elon Musk's recent application for a court injunction against OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, as well as Microsoft, hoping to prevent OpenAI from becoming a fully for-profit company, Open AI subsequently responded to the allegations.No basisLater, a long list of emails, texts and legal documents were released earlierAs evidence, alleging that Elon Musk actually wants OpenAI to become a profit-oriented company and appoint him as CEO.
In its response, OpenAI pointed out that Elon Musk did not expect OpenAI to remain a non-profit company as he stated, but instead required OpenAI to become profit-oriented, which is completely different from the current accusations.
According to OpenAI's public emails and other documents, both Elon Musk and OpenAI at the time understood that becoming a primarily for-profit company was necessary to more successfully advance its technology and achieve its goal of using technology to advance the public good. However, Elon Musk's proposal for a new board structure, which would have given him initial control of the company, sparked opposition from OpenAI, leading to a disagreement between Elon Musk and OpenAI's leadership and ultimately leading to his departure from the non-profit OpenAI board.
OpenAI's release of this supporting evidence naturally hopes to make Elon Musk's position in filing the lawsuit unreasonable, emphasizing that he originally wanted OpenAI to become a profit-oriented company and that his CEO-to-be would have initial control, effectively prioritizing profit rather than considering the public interest.
Elon Musk first filed a lawsuit against OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others in February of this year, and in a 2-page lawsuit, accused OpenAI of violating its original purpose of "benefiting humanity". He believed that OpenAI had accepted a $35 billion investment from Microsoft and held a 130% stake in it, and had become a "subsidiary" that helped Microsoft make profits.
However, the lawsuit was withdrawn in June this year, but was resumed in July. The lawsuit included requests to restrict OpenAI's existing investors from investing in other market competitors, and also applied to restrict OpenAI from obtaining information about competitors through Microsoft's board of directors, and prohibit OpenAI from transforming into a profit-making enterprise. It also hopes to restrict OpenAI from clearing or transferring the technical intellectual property rights held or controlled by its subsidiaries or affiliates.
Other restrictions include prohibiting OpenAI from engaging in business cooperation with corporate organizations that have significant economic interests in the lawsuit, so as to prevent OpenAI from gaining greater benefits.
