Elon Musk had urged in an e-mail that OpenAI be hooked up “to Tesla as its money cow”.

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OpenAI, the agency behind ChatGPT, on Tuesday denied Elon Musk’s accusations of “betrayal” of its unique mission and mentioned it might push to have them dismissed in courtroom.

The boss of Tesla, SpaceX and X was one of many co-founders of OpenAI in 2015 together with Sam Altman however left the group in 2018 and is now considered one of its most vocal critics.

Musk launched a authorized case in opposition to OpenAI final week, arguing in paperwork filed in a San Francisco courtroom that the agency was all the time meant as a nonprofit entity.

“We intend to maneuver to dismiss all of Elon’s claims,” OpenAI and its executives mentioned in a weblog publish.

OpenAI captured the general public creativeness in late 2022 with the discharge of its chatbot ChatGPT, which may generate poems and essays and even achieve exams.

The agency began as a non-profit devoted to growing “synthetic common intelligence” (AGI), a time period loosely outlined as a type of AI that may outstrip human capabilities on all measures of intelligence.

The intention was for OpenAI to ensure that such expertise could be protected for humanity.

OpenAI has obtained about $13 billion in funding from Microsoft in recent times, and each corporations market AI providers to builders and people.

On Tuesday, Altman and different executives from the Silicon Valley start-up detailed their counter-arguments, with supporting emails.

“We’re unhappy that it is come to this with somebody whom we have deeply admired — somebody who impressed us to intention increased, then informed us we might fail, began a competitor, after which sued us after we began making significant progress in the direction of OpenAI’s mission with out him,” they mentioned in a weblog publish.

In 2017, “all of us understood we have been going to want much more capital to succeed at our mission — billions of {dollars} per yr, which was excess of any of us, particularly Elon, thought we would be able to elevate because the non-profit”, they mentioned.

The next yr, Musk urged in an e-mail that OpenAI be hooked up “to Tesla as its money cow”.

However within the face of refusal from the crew, Musk “quickly selected to go away OpenAI, saying that our chance of success was 0,” including he deliberate to construct an AGI competitor inside Tesla.

“When he left in late February 2018, he informed our crew he was supportive of us discovering our personal path to elevating billions of {dollars},” mentioned the OpenAI weblog publish.

Altman and his colleagues additionally mentioned that their firm is offering free AI entry to organizations and international locations, together with Albania, which “is utilizing OpenAI’s instruments to speed up its EU accession by as a lot as 5.5 years.”

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