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Elon Musk sues OpenAI, wants it to go nonprofit again


OpenAI is a "de facto subsidiary (...) of Microsoft," claims Musk's lawsuit.

Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, arguing it has breached its contract and that it should go open source, and become a non-profit organization again. But in 2019, it transitioned to a for-profit company, and in 2023, shortly after launching the extremely popular ChatGPT AI chatbot, it received a massive, $10 billion investment from Microsoft. "In reality, however, OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft," the lawsuit states.

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