OpenAI fires back with emails in Musk lawsuit

Bitter feud: Musk (right) has launched a legal case against OpenAI, and its co-founders, including Altman (left), as they start to make meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without Musk. — AFP

NEW YORK: OpenAI fired back at a lawsuit filed against it by Elon Musk in a blog post on Tuesday, using the billionaire’s own emails to show he backed the company’s plans to become a for-profit business and that he insisted it raise “billions” of dollars to be relevant compared with Google.

Musk filed the lawsuit last week against OpenAI, chief executive officer Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman, alleging the start-up had strayed from its mission to build responsible artificial intelligence (AI) and that it had become beholden to Microsoft Corp, its largest investor.