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Elon Musk and Sam Altman cofounded OpenAI, but now they're locked in a legal battle. Here's the history of their working relationship and feud.
- Elon Musk and Sam Altman cofounded OpenAI in 2015, a nonprofit company focused on developing artificial intelligence.After departing from OpenAI, Musk announced his own AI venture, xAI.Musk sued OpenAI and Altman in March 2024, and filed a new one in August of the same year claiming he was 'deceived' into cofounding the company. In November, Musk amended his suit to include Microsoft, who is an investor in OpenAI. He accused the two companies of monopolistic behavior. For their part, OpenAI called the lawsuit 'incoherent' and 'contradictory. However, Musk recently dropped his original lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman, and cofounder Greg Brockman.
- Musk filed a new lawsuit against Altman and Brockman in August, alleging that OpenAI executives played with Musk's concerns about the existential risk of AI, and “assiduously manipulated” him into cofounding the company as a nonprofit. The billionaire called OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft a “de facto merger” and accused the two of anti-competitive practices.
- Musk's lawyers claimed that OpenAI “has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world” and is “refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity."
- OpenAI responded to the lawsuit by stating that "Elon's prior emails continue to speak for themselves."
- Musk expanded his beef with OpenAI to include Microsoft, accusing the two of constituting a monopoly.
- In November, he amended the lawsuit to include Microsoft as a defendant, calling OpenAI's partnership with Microsoft a "de facto merger" and accusing the two of anti-competitive practices, such as engaging in "lavish compensation."
- Elon Musk sued OpenAI in March but dropped the lawsuit in June.
- Two weeks later, Musk filed a motion asking a judge to prevent OpenAI from dropping its nonprofit status.
- Musk challenged a $500B AI infrastructure project, Stargate, led by OpenAI. Under OpenAI's X post announcing plans to invest half a trillion dollars over the next four years, Musk wrote, "They don't actually have the money."
- Musk first sued Altman and OpenAI in March 2024 accusing them of betraying the firm's founding principles, before dropping the lawsuit. He then filed a new one in August of the same year claiming he was 'deceived' into cofounding the company. In November, he amended it to include Microsoft as a defendant.
- As Musk's influence on US policy grows, his feud with Altman hangs in the balance.
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