Elon Musk hits out at Microsoft in sprawling lawsuit against OpenAI
Elon Musk has expanded his lawsuit against OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, adding federal charges of violating antitrust laws and other claims, as well as including Microsoft, OpenAI’s main financial backer, as a defendant, The Guardian reports.
Elon Musk hits out at Microsoft in sprawling lawsuit against OpenAI
The amended suit, filed late Thursday in federal court in Oakland, California, alleges that Microsoft and OpenAI illegally attempted to monopolize the generative artificial intelligence market and eliminate competition.
Like the original complaint in August, Musk accuses OpenAI and its chief executive, Samuel Altman, of violating contractual provisions by putting profit before the public good in an attempt to advance the field of artificial intelligence.
“Never before has a corporation gone from a tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion market-dominating, for-profit gorgon — and that in just eight years,” the complaint states. It aims to cancel OpenAI’s license with Microsoft and force the two companies to forfeit “ill-gotten gains”.
In an official statement, OpenAI claimed that the new lawsuit “is even more unfounded and exaggerated than the previous ones.” Microsoft declined to comment.
“Microsoft’s anti-competitive practices have escalated,” said Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff. “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.”
The extended lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft violated antitrust laws by conditioning access to investment opportunities on agreements that prevent collaboration with their rivals. The action also states that the exclusive licensing agreement between the two companies amounts to a merger without regulatory approvals.
In a court filing last month, OpenAI accused Musk of filing the lawsuit as part of an “increasingly loud campaign to harass OpenAI for its own competitive advantage.”
Source: www.mediafax.ro
