Elon Musk’s lawyers filed an injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, accusing the two of anticompetitive practices and trying to block OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company. The filing, noted by also names OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Microsoft’s Dee Templeton and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman as suspects. Musk first for allegedly violating his founding mission of building AI “for the benefit of humanity,” but a few months later. He then appeared in a federal court in California in August, and recently.
The new motion accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of telling investors not to fund OpenAI’s competitors, such as Musk’s xAI, because they “benefit from unlawfully obtained competitively sensitive information or coordination” through their relationship with Microsoft, and other alleged antitrust violations. “OpenAI’s path from nonprofit to profitable behemoth is full per se anti-competitive practices, blatant violations of its charitable mission and rampant self-dealing,” the report states. “If we allow this course of action to continue until a final decision is made, plaintiffs and the general public will be seriously harmed.”
It comes a few months after it was reported that OpenAI is a model. In a statement shared with Engadget in response to Musk’s latest filing, an OpenAI spokesperson said: “Elon’s fourth attempt, which again recycles the same baseless complaints, remains.”
