Odaily Planet Daily News On Tuesday, local time, Elon Musk withdrew the lawsuit filed in California State Court against OpenAI and its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman. Just the day before, Musk publicly criticized OpenAI and its new partnership with Apple. Court documents show that the case has been withdrawn unconditionally. A hearing is scheduled for Wednesday in San Francisco, where the judge will consider whether the case should be dismissed at the defendant's request. On the evening of February 29th, local time, Musk filed a lawsuit in the San Francisco Superior Court, represented by the Los Angeles law firm Irell & Manella, suing OpenAI and its CEO Altman for breach of contract. Musk said in the lawsuit that Altman and OpenAI violated an agreement reached when the AI research company was founded to develop technology for the benefit of humanity rather than profit. Musk claims that OpenAI's recent relationship with technology giant Microsoft has undermined the company's original goal of working on public, open source general artificial intelligence (AGI). Court documents show that Musk has made allegations against OpenAI, including breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair business practices, and asked the company to resume open source. Musk also asked the court for an injunction barring OpenAI, its president Greg Brockman, Altman (a co-defendant in the case), and Microsoft from profiting from the company’s artificial general intelligence technology. (CNBC)
