Musk applies for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, requesting to suspend its commercialization transition
ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, Musk's lawyers have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investors and close partner Microsoft to prevent OpenAI and other designated defendants from engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Musk is one of the co-founders of OpenAI and left the company in 2018 due to disagreements over its direction.
The motion for the injunction was submitted late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, Microsoft, LinkedIn co-founder and former OpenAI board member Reid Hoffman, and former OpenAI board member and Microsoft Vice President Dee Templeton of engaging in various illegal activities and seeking to stop these activities. The allegations include:
Preventing investors from supporting OpenAI's competitors, such as Musk's own AI company xAI;
Benefiting from "improperly obtained competitive sensitive information" through the relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft;
Transforming OpenAI's governance structure into a for-profit entity and "transferring any significant assets, including intellectual property owned, held, or controlled by OpenAI, its subsidiaries, or affiliates";
Causing OpenAI to conduct business with organizations that have "significant economic interests" in any of the defendants.
Musk's lawyers claim that if the injunction is not granted, it will result in "irreparable harm."
