Elon Musk’s lawyers filed an injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft on Friday, accusing them of anticompetitive practices and seeking to prevent OpenAI’s conversion into a for-profit company. The file, spotted by also names Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, president of OpenAI, Dee Templeton of Microsoft and Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, as defendants. Musk first for allegedly violating its founding mission to build AI “for the benefit of humanity,” but a few months later. He in a California federal court 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, to “benefit from competitively sensitive information or coordination wrongly obtained” through to their relationship with Microsoft, and other alleged antitrust violations. “OpenAI’s journey from nonprofit to for-profit giant is filled with in itself anti-competitive practices, blatant violations of its charitable mission and widespread self-interested dealings,” he says. “Allowing this conduct to continue until a final decision will cause serious harm to the plaintiffs and the public at large. »
This comes a few months after it was announced that OpenAI was model. In a statement shared with Engadget in response to Elon’s latest filing, an OpenAI spokesperson said: “Elon’s fourth attempt, once again recycling the same baseless complaints, continues to be .”