Elon Musk drops legal battle against OpenAI and its founders

Elon Musk has decided to withdraw the lawsuit he filed against OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, for breach of contract. This decision was made just 24 hours before a hearing was scheduled to take place in a San Francisco court to determine the acceptance of the lawsuit.

The lawsuit was initially filed by Musk last February, in which he alleged that OpenAI, Altman, and Brockman were in breach of contract. Musk claimed that the company was developing general artificial intelligence (AI) for economic reasons rather than for the benefit of humanity. Musk, who had previously served on OpenAI’s board of directors until 2018, accused Microsoft, OpenAI’s main shareholder, of transforming the project.

In response to Musk’s claims, Altman stated in an article published in 2023 by Semafor that Musk had offered to lead OpenAI in early 2018, which the company’s founders rejected as they believed Google was more advanced. Following this rejection, Musk stepped down from the board, citing a possible conflict of interest.

Last year, Musk created his own AI company called xAI, which developed a chatbot named Grok that was later integrated into the social network X. Musk has also mentioned plans to include Grok in Tesla cars, a company of which he is the CEO. Despite his previous criticisms of Apple integrating Siri with ChatGPT, Musk has expressed intentions to collaborate with other companies in the AI field.