The decision was made just one day before a judge in California was scheduled to consider OpenAI’s plea to dismiss the lawsuit.
Just one day before a judge in a state court in California was scheduled to hear OpenAI’s request for dismissal, Elon Musk decided to withdraw a lawsuit that he had filed against the company. In his lawsuit, which was submitted in February, Musk accused OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of breaking the company’s non-profit status and instead putting money ahead of harnessing artificial intelligence to assist humanity.
OpenAI has become a “closed-source de facto subsidiary” of Microsoft, which had invested $13 billion in the company and had a 49 percent share, according to Musk’s allegations, which were included in the 35-page lawsuit between the two companies. The generative artificial intelligence tools that Microsoft utilizes, known as Copilot, are powered by OpenAI’s technology. These tools are extensively embedded into Microsoft’s products, such as Windows and Office.
According to reports, OpenAI had submitted a request to have the lawsuit dismissed, alleging that Musk would use any information that surfaced as a result of the litigation to gain access to the “proprietary records and technology” of the firm. In addition, the corporation had stated that there was no founding agreement that any of its employees could violate.
The request for comment that was made by newtechmania was not met with a response from OpenAI or from Alex Spiro, who represents Musk.
Musk, who was one of the founders of OpenAI in 2015, departed the firm three years later due to disputes on the path the group was going in. Grok is a ChatGPT competitor that is embedded into X and is available for paying users. He is the founder and CEO of xAI, an artificial intelligence business. Recent events have resulted in xAI successfully securing a fundraising round of $6 billion from prominent investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital.
In response to Apple’s decision to include ChatGPT into its operating systems through a cooperation with OpenAI, Musk announced on Monday that he would prohibit Apple products from being sold by his company.