The top manager responsible for strategy issues, Jason Kwon, contradicted, among other things, Musk's claim that OpenAI is actually controlled by the major investor Microsoft. The allegations may have stemmed from Musk's regret at no longer being involved with OpenAI, Kwon teased, according to reports from the financial service Bloomberg and the news website Axios.
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However, in a second email, Kwon backtracked somewhat, as Bloomberg reports. Accordingly, Kwon described Musk as “one of his heroes” and said he missed him as a person who also competed with other companies to advance the development of technologies. OpenAI has not yet commented publicly on the lawsuit, and in response to a request from Bloomberg, the company did not want to comment on the internal emails cited there.
With the move, Musk escalated his feud with OpenAI and company boss Sam Altman. The essence of the matter is that the company OpenAI, co-founded by Musk in 2015, has deviated from the agreed path of being a non-profit company whose research into artificial intelligence should benefit humanity.
Major investor Microsoft in particular is now benefiting from this, according to the lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Thursday. This is a “flagrant violation” of the original founding agreement. Musk, who left OpenAI after a few years, has long criticized OpenAI and Altman. Last year he founded his own AI company called X.AI, whose chatbot Grok competes with ChatGPT. According to Axios, Kwon also contradicted Musk's statement on Friday that the current AI technology GPT-4 is already a form of so-called general artificial intelligence.
This is the name given to AI software that can not only complete individual, narrow tasks better than humans, but is generally superior to them. According to OpenAI's internal rules, Microsoft should not have access to the company's technology with general artificial intelligence.
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