Elon Musk, the mind behind SpaceX and Tesla, has thrown down the legal gauntlet against OpenAI, accusing the company of betraying its humanity-first principles in favor of profits. At the heart of the dispute is a claim that OpenAI, initially launched as a non-profit with Musk’s support, has strayed far from its altruistic path after flipping the for-profit switch. Musk’s lawsuit seeks to stop anyone—yep, that includes you, Microsoft—from profiting off of OpenAI’s tech, especially the headline-hogging ChatGPT OpenAI, for its part, isn’t taking Musk’s accusations lying down. The San Francisco-based titan shot back, refuting his claims and vowing to chuck his lawsuit into the nearest trash bin. Adding intrigue to the saga, OpenAI’s riposte includes a juicy tidbit: emails hinting at Musk’s dreams of merging the AI upstart with his own ventures—Tesla or SpaceX. .stk-860eebb{box-shadow:0 0 0 2px rgba(120,120,120,0.1) !important}.stk-860eebb-container{background-color:#f3f3f3 !important}.stk-860eebb-container:before{background-color:#f3f3f3 !important} .stk-fff85bd{margin-left:-20px !important}.stk-fff85bd .stk–svg-wrapper .stk–inner-svg svg:last-child{opacity:0.7 !important}.stk-fff85bd .stk–svg-wrapper .stk–inner-svg svg:last-child,.stk-fff85bd .stk–svg-wrapper .stk–inner-svg svg:last-child :is(g,path,rect,polygon,ellipse){fill:var(–stk-global-color-56583,#911d9c) !important} .stk-75422ff{margin-left:-17px !important}.stk-75422ff .stk-block-text__text{font-size:16px !important;font-weight:300 !important;font-style:normal !important;font-family:”Golos Text”,Sans-serif !important}@media screen and (max-width:1023px){.stk-75422ff .stk-block-text__text{font-size:16px !important}}“The mission of OpenAI is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, which means both building safe and beneficial AGI and helping create broadly distributed benefits,” OpenAI said in a blog post. “We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon’s claims.” OpenAI stated that its mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits all of humanity, and it intends to move to dismiss all of Musk’s claims. Musk’s lawsuit claims breach of contract and seeks an injunction to prevent anyone from…OpenAI says Elon Musk’s lawsuit is BS – they have receipts to prove it