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Musk’s amended lawsuit against OpenAI names Microsoft as defendent


Elon Musk has filed an amended complaint against OpenAI, accusing the company — and its close partner, Microsoft — of antitrust.

Greylock invested in Inflection, Musk’s counsel notes, the AI startup that Microsoft acqui-hired earlier this year — and which could reasonably be considered an OpenAI competitor, according to the complaint. “The purpose of the prohibition on interlocking directorates is to prevent sharing of competitively sensitive information in violation of antitrust laws and/or providing a forum for the coordination of other anticompetitive activity,” the complaint reads. The thrust of the lawsuit remains the same on the plaintiff side: that OpenAI profited from Musk’s early involvement in the company yet reneged on its nonprofit pledge to make the fruits of its AI research available to all.

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