Billionaire Elon Musk targets Microsoft in OpenAI lawsuit

Billionaire Elon Musk sued OpenAI in August, accusing the company and its CEO, Samuel Altman, of violating the terms of their contract by putting profits above the public interest in advancing artificial intelligence (AI), according to Reuters. Now, he has added Microsoft, OpenAI's financial backer, as a defendant.

Billionaire Elon Musk targets Microsoft in expanded lawsuit against OpenAI

“No company has ever gone from being a tax-exempt charity to a $175 billion profit, crippling the market, and in just eight years,” the lawsuit states.

Billionaire Elon Musk is asking a court to revoke OpenAI’s license to Microsoft and force them to forfeit their ill-gotten gains. Musk’s amended lawsuit, filed in Oakland, California, on November 14, alleges that Microsoft and OpenAI illegally monopolized the market for generative AI and pushed out competitors.

OpenAI said Mr. Musk’s latest lawsuit is baseless and more outrageous than previous ones. Microsoft has not commented.

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Mr. Musk has long railed against OpenAI, the company he co-founded. Since launching ChatGPT in late 2022 to great fanfare, OpenAI has become a household name in the generative AI industry and has received billions of dollars in investment from Microsoft.

The expanded lawsuit says OpenAI and Microsoft violated antitrust laws by conditioning investment opportunities on agreements not to cooperate with their competitors. The lawsuit argues that the exclusive licensing agreement between the companies amounts to a merger without regulatory approval.

In a court filing in October, OpenAI accused Mr. Musk of suing to harass the company for his competitive advantage.

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