The company OPENAI replies to Elon Musk by complaining in turn against the billionaire

The quarrel between the OpenAi and Elon Musk company takes a new legal turn. The company, which launched the generative Chatgpt artificial intelligence platform at the end “Fierce campaign” To harm him. She wishes to obtain an injunction to put an end to “Other illegal and unjust actions” on his part, as well as compensation.

In the legal documents filed Wednesday April 9 before a Californian court, Openai affirms that the multimillionaire became hostile to the company after having abandoned it, years before its breakthrough in AI. “Musk could not bear the success of a society he had abandoned and declared condemned”asserts the company.

This complaint notably follows that filed in 2024 by the richest man in the world which accused Openai of having betrayed his founding mission. The boss of Tesla and SpaceX has since founded his own generative AI business, XAI, in 2023, and he has invested tens of billions of dollars to compete with other major players in the sector.

Modification of statutes

In its counterattack, the company today led by Sam Altman believes that its former co-founder “Decided to destroy Openai and build a direct competitor who would be more technologically advanced – not for the good of humanity, but for Elon Musk”.

OPENAI was founded in December 2015 as a non -profit research laboratory whose mission is to ensure that general AI (AG) – designating an AI as intelligent as humans – “Take advantage of all of humanity”. Elon Musk was one of the first donors, alongside Sam Altman. But his participation was short -lived, according to Openai; The company assures that it left the organization after Openai leaders refused “To comply with its requirements on business control or, alternately, its absorption in Tesla”.

Openai is now worth $ 300 billion (around 265 billion euros) after its last 40 billion dollars round, the largest fundraising ever made by an unlisted start-up. But the company will have to modify its statutes, to turn into a classic company, while retaining the non -profit mother organization.

Attempt to take control

OPENAI criticizes Elon Musk for harming him by wrongly presenting this change in legal form as a total conversion, by multiplying attacks in the press and on its social network X where it has more than 200 million subscribers. She also reproaches him for her “Fictal purchase offer for OpenAi assets”. In February, the billionaire had taken the lead of a consortium which proposed to take control of OpenAI for $ 97.4 billion (94.5 billion euros).

The company says it had to have, on several occasions, to divert resources to ward off this “Feint” and have “Subject to damage due to the illegal campaign of harassment, interference and disinformation of Musk”.

Elon Musk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, replied by e-mail on Wednesday evening, and said that if the Board of Directors of Openai had “Truly examined the offer, as he was forced to do, he would have seen how serious she was.”