Elon Musk sues OpenAI, Sam Altman over breaching initial agreement to pursue profits


SAN FRANCISCO, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Elon Musk has sued OpenAI and its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, alleging the company has broken its initial agreement by pursuing profits instead of the nonprofit's founding mission to develop AI that benefits humanity.

In the lawsuit filed in a court in U.S. San Francisco late Thursday, Musk, a co-founder and early supporter of OpenAI, claimed that Altman and Brockman convinced him to help found and finance the startup in 2015 with promises it would be a nonprofit. The founding agreement required OpenAI to make its technology "freely available" to the public, the lawsuit said.

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