OpenAI ‘clearly disagrees’ with Elon Musk’s lawsuit against it, suggests Tesla CEO is ‘regrettable’

OpenAI co-founder Musk, who is no longer with the company, filed a lawsuit late Thursday against OpenAI and its chief executive officer, Sam Altman, alleging close ties to the company. Microsoft Corp. has undermined its original mission of creating open source technology that would not be subject to corporate preferences.

OpenAI’s chief strategy officer, Jason Cowen, pushed back at Musk’s suggestion that the startup is a “de facto subsidiary” of investor Microsoft, saying the billionaire’s claims “to not be involved with the company today. may be caused by Alvin’s remorse,” according to a copy of Memo obtained by Bloomberg News.

In a separate memo, also seen by Bloomberg, Altman called Musk a hero and said he misses the man he knew who challenged others by creating better technology.

OpenAI declined to comment on the lawsuit or the two memos.

Musk is suing for claims of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices, among other complaints. As recently as 2019, he is bringing suit as a donor to OpenAI’s nonprofit parent organization, trying to force OpenAI to stop personally benefiting Microsoft and Altman. Is.

Kwon pointed out in the memo that the company’s mission is to “ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity,” using a term that refers to theoretical software that can perform a wide range of tasks than a human can. can Kwon also said that OpenAI is independent and competes directly with Microsoft.

Kwon also said he wanted to update employees on “inquiries from government agencies,” apparently related to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into the company’s board late last year. It started after Altman was fired.

Cowen did not mention the agency by name, but said that “after the events of last November, they asked us for information and that is what we expected given the circumstances.” Cowan said the company is cooperating with the government.