ALBAWABA - Just one day before a California court was scheduled to hear OpenAI's motion for dismissal, Bloomberg reports that Elon Musk withdrew his lawsuit which claims that the company's CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman, broke a founding commitment last year by putting money ahead of humanity.
Musk previously claimed that OpenAI had violated a founding commitment to be a nonprofit organization that produced artificial intelligence for the greater good of humanity by turning into a "de facto subsidiary" of Microsoft.
Wednesday's hearing in San Francisco was supposed to be regarding whether the judge would decide whether to grant the defendants' motion to have the case dismissed; but, according to a court record cited by CNBC, the case has been dropped without prejudice.
On the other hand, Musk is currently seeking capital for his own artificial intelligence startup, which he is marketing as an OpenAI substitute. OpenAI had said that by the San Francisco lawsuit, Musk aims to have access to its "proprietary records and technology" via pretrial fact-finding and information exchange, sometimes known as discovery, according to Bloomberg.
Additionally, OpenAI claimed that Musk supported the company's intentions to turn a profit in 2017 and demanded that it raise "billions." Contrary to what Musk has alleged, OpenAI refuted any founding agreement it could have broken and denied having made any commitment to make its technology open-source.
Musk was originally a co-founder in OpenAI before departing shortly after three years according to Reuters, citing concerns over the company’s profitability goals instead of open sourcing of AI. While developing Grok, a rival to ChatGPT, he has expressed worries about the safety consequences of the rapid advancement of generative AI technology.
