Elon Musk withdraws OpenAI lawsuit
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The news: Elon Musk has asked the California state court to dismiss his lawsuit against OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker that he co-founded in 2015, without giving a reason for the move.
The context: The billionaire entrepreneur originally filed the lawsuit in February, accusing OpenAI of abandoning its original mission of developing artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity and not for profit.
Before Musk withdrew his case, a San Francisco Superior Court judge was due to hear OpenAI's bid to dismiss the lawsuit at a hearing on Wednesday.
The lawsuit said that OpenAI "set the founding agreement aflame" last year when it released its most powerful language model GPT-4. It asked a judge to force the Microsoft-backed company to make its research and technology available to the public and to prevent the startup from using its assets for the financial benefit of its investors.
OpenAI's attorney's had previously rebutted Musk's claims, stating: "Seeing the remarkable technological advances OpenAI has achieved, Musk now wants that success for himself".
On Tuesday, Apple announced that it would be integrating OpenAI into iOS which Musk said was an "unacceptable security violation" and that he would ban employees from using Apple devices.
Last July, Musk founded his own AI startup xAI which raised USD6 billion ($9 billion) in a Series B funding in May, in an attempt to take on OpenAI, as well as Anthropic and Google's Deepmind.
The source: Reuters
