Elon Musk Cancels Lawsuit Against OpenAI And Sam Altman

JAKARTA - Billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday, June 11, dropped his lawsuit accusing its creators of ChatGPT, OpenAI, and CEO Sam Altman of leaving the original startup mission to develop artificial intelligence for humanitarian purposes and not for personal gain.

Musk's lawyers asked the California state court to drop the lawsuit initially filed in February, without giving any reason for the move. This is known, according to documents filed at the San Francisco High Court.

The High Court judges there are ready to hear OpenAI's request to drop the lawsuit at a hearing scheduled for Wednesday, June 12.

OpenAI and Musk's lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the media on this matter.

Musk dropped the case without prejudice, meaning he could re-submit it at another time.

The lawsuit marks the culmination of Musk's long-awaited opposition stance towards OpenAI, a startup he founded and which has become the face of generative AI through billions of dollars funding from Microsoft.

Musk in July last year founded an artificial intelligence startup, xAI, which raised US$6 billion (Rp97.8 trillion) in series B funding in May to achieve a post-defense valuation of US$24 billion (Rp391.5 trillion).

The lawsuit said Altman and co-founder of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, approached Musk to make the company open source and nonprofit, but the startup founded in 2015 is now focusing on making money.

"OpenAI "fired its founding agreement" last year when it released its strongest language model, GPT-4," the lawsuit reads.

Musk in the lawsuit asked judges to force OpenAI to make its research and technology publicly available and prevent the startup from using its assets, including GPT-4, for Microsoft's financial gains and others.

While OpenAI argued in court documents that the lawsuit was based on unreasonable claims, describing it as a fabricated attempt by Musk to advance his own AI interests.

"Looking at OpenAI's extraordinary technological advances, Musk now wants that success for himself," said OpenAI's lawyer.

Musk in April's filing said OpenAI tried to "propose arguments based on the debated facts" that were beyond the scope of the lawsuit.