OpenAI, the most valuable AI startup, said on Wednesday that it plans to throw out all of Elon Musk’s claims in a recent lawsuit. The company claimed that Musk, a billionaire businessman who helped start the company, didn’t have that much of an effect on its growth and success.
In a blog post written by Greg Brockman, Ilya Sutskever, John Schulman, Sam Altman, Wojciech Zaremba, and OpenAI as a whole, the Microsoft-backed startup said that Musk had given them less than $45 million since they started in 2015, even though he had promised to give them as much as $1 billion. The startup also got more than $90 million from other donors to help pay for its studies, the company said.
Musk sued Altman, Brockman, OpenAI, and other company employees last week, saying the ChatGPT maker had broken the original contracts by focusing on making money instead of the nonprofit’s original goal of creating AI that helps people. This is OpenAI’s answer. He said the goal of OpenAI was to be an alternative to Google.
Musk said in the lawsuit that OpenAI had changed its focus from making technology “freely available” to the public to making as much money as possible for Microsoft, which was against the terms of the company’s founding deal.
Musk and OpenAI are in a very important legal fight that could have huge effects on the future of AI. With a value of over $80 billion, OpenAI is the most valuable AI company. Since ChatGPT went public in late 2022, it has started a race in AI that has never been seen before. The result of this lawsuit could have a big effect on the direction and speed of AI development, as well as the power dynamics between the major players in the field.
In a blog post today, OpenAI said that it became clear that the annual costs would be billions of dollars once they realized how many computers would be needed to make artificial general intelligence (AGI), which is an AI system with intelligence on par with or higher than humans. When they realized this, they knew they had to change to a for-profit structure in order to get the money and tools they needed.
OpenAI wrote in the blog post that this is when Musk and the other co-founders of OpenAI started to disagree. The post includes five emails between Musk and OpenAI officials.
Even though we talked about making the goal more profitable, Elon wanted us to merge with Tesla or give him full control. Elon quit OpenAI and said he would make his own rival to Google and DeepMind if there wasn’t already one. “He told us he would support us if we chose our own path,” OpenAI wrote.
“Early in February 2018, Elon sent us an email saying that OpenAI should “attach to Tesla as its cash cow.” He added that he thought this was “exactly right.” OpenAI wrote, “Tesla is the only way that could even come close to competing with Google.”
OpenAI said on Wednesday that its goal is still to make sure that AGI helps everyone. Part of this is making sure that AGI is safe and useful while also making its tools available to as many people as possible. The company said that OpenAI’s technology is being used to give people more power and make their daily lives better in places like Kenya and India.
It’s sad that this happened with someone we really admired—someone who pushed us to do better, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making real progress on OpenAI’s goal without him,” the company wrote in a blog post.
Musk said that OpenAI had given up on its open-source principles. In response, the Microsoft-backed startup said that Musk had been aware of and agreed to the eventual shift away from full transparency as the organization made big steps forward in its AGI development.
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“Elon knew that the mission did not mean making AGI available to everyone.” “As we get closer to building AI, it will make sense to start being less open,” Ilya told Elon. The “Open” in openAI means that everyone should be able to enjoy the benefits of AI once it’s made, but it’s fine to keep the science secret. Elon agreed, saying “Yup.”
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