(New York) Elon Musk on Tuesday abandoned his legal action against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman, whom he had sued for having violated, according to him, its mission as a non-profit company.
One of the entrepreneur’s lawyers, Morgan Chu, filed a document to this effect, consulted by AFP, with a San Francisco court reporting to the Superior Court of California.
The lawyer does not specify, in this form, the reasons for abandoning the proceedings, which were initiated at the end of February.
Asked by AFP, Morgan Chu and another advisor to Elon Musk, Alex Spiro, did not immediately respond.
Elon Musk criticized Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, with whom he co-founded OpenAI in 2015, for having “torn apart” the founding charter of the start-up.
In addition to the non-profit status, the latter notably provided that the technology on which OpenAI products were based be made available to the public, according to the so-called “open source” process.
However, OpenAI has not provided access to its GPT-4 language model, a program bringing together a colossal amount of data to allow software like ChatGPT to answer questions asked in everyday language.
Elon Musk withdrew from OpenAI in 2018. In 2023, he created another start-up dedicated to generative artificial intelligence, xAI.
In the document initially filed at the end of February, the CEO of Tesla also denounced the agreement between OpenAI and Microsoft, under which, according to him, “GPT-4 is now, in fact, Microsoft’s algorithm”.
Elon Musk also accused Sam Altman and OpenAI of neglecting the assessment and control of risks associated with the development of generative AI.
OpenAI’s change of direction had already caused Sam Altman to be fired by his organization’s board of directors in November.
Supported by Microsoft and the overwhelming majority of the start-up’s employees, the young boss was reinstated a few days later, while the Windows maker obtained an observer seat on the board after Sam’s critical members were dismissed. Altman.