OpenAI: "Musk's Claim Is Fake... There Was No Agreement"

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, and its CEO Sam Altman. In response, OpenAI has denied Musk's claims, stating that they are not true and that there was no agreement at the time of OpenAI's founding.

According to Bloomberg News on the 12th (local time), OpenAI stated in recent court documents, "Musk's claims are based on complex and inconsistent factual premises."

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI [Photo by Yonhap News]

Earlier, Musk filed a lawsuit demanding that OpenAI and Altman cease their commercial operations and release AI technology as open source. Musk claimed that in 2015, he accepted a proposal from Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman to create a nonprofit research institute to develop artificial general intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity and to release AGI technology as open source. However, he alleges that OpenAI violated this by transforming into a de facto subsidiary of Microsoft (MS), rather than remaining a nonprofit organization.

In response to these claims, OpenAI stated, "As clearly indicated in the complaint, there was no agreement with Musk, so no contract was breached." OpenAI has also denied Musk's claims through recent employee notices and blog posts.

OpenAI added, "Musk's demands are strange because he fabricated his claims," and "Musk is trying to force OpenAI to restructure and distribute technology based on contract terms that do not exist."

OpenAI requested that the case be handled carefully, noting that if pre-trial fact-finding and information sharing proceed, Musk could gain access to records and technology exclusively held by OpenAI. They also asked the court to designate the case as a 'complex litigation' to ensure it is handled swiftly without imposing unnecessary burdens on the company.

Meanwhile, Musk responded to these claims by calling them "OpenAI's lies."

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