OpenAi says that Elon Musk did not leave the company alone; He tried to take over and the AI Research Giant says it has the e -mails to prove it.
In a newly submitted countersuit, OpenAI accuses the CEO Elon Musk of Tesla of trying a hostile acquisition of the company he helped, with the help of what the “Bad-Right Tactics” and a “self-serving story”.
OpenAi tries to block the alleged campaign of Elon Musk for intimidation and disruption, aimed at a false bid of $ 97 billion, while it is looking for compensatory and punitive compensation to be determined during a possible process, along with provisional lighting to prevent further interference.
The non-stop actions by Elon against us are just bad loyalty tactics to delay OpenAi and to grab control of the leading AI innovations for his personal benefit. Today we have stood out to stop him.
– OpenAI Newsroom (@OpenaineWsroom) April 9, 2025
“These antics are just history about repetition – Elon who is all about Elon,” OpenAi’s official newsroom written In a burning post on X as it Shared internal e -mails Let Musk push to convert OpenAi into an entity with a profit motive.
While Musk has consistently argued that OpenAi Deviated from his original non -profit missionOpenAi claims that Musk himself was the first to insist on a structural overhaul, as long as he was in charge.
As shown in the E -mails, Musk started to question CEO Sam Altman in November 2015 in an E -mail in an e -mail, where he wrote that a “standard C Corp with a parallel non -profit” would probably coordinate the stimuli better.
Decrypt The E -mails of OpenAi has had to verify independently. Representatives of the companies of Musk, Tesla and SpaceX, did not respond immediately Decrypts Request for comments.
Need with profit motive
In June and July 2017, as the needs of OpenAi on Compute scaled up with his DOTA 2 experiments, Musk reportedly encouraged expansion and wrote: “Let’s find the least expensive way to ensure that the computing power is not a limitation.”
And that summer the discussions shifted. On July 13, 2017, Musk is said to have established a model with a profit motive. Days later he warned that the AI ambitions of China were another reason to ‘change course’.
OpenAI claims that Musk made his move in September 2017, insisting on “initial control” about the board of OpenAI in exchange for capital and requirements that he is CEO.
E -mails of that month show him that he proposes a structure in which he would designate four of the seven board seats. “I would unambiguously have the first control over the company,” he reportedly wrote.
OpenAi claims that Musk has also assigned his team to record a Shell company with profit motive, Open Artificial Intelligence Technologies, Inc., with plans to accommodate the IP of OpenAi underneath.
Pushback
But OpenAi pushed back. In a candid message, co-founders warned that the structure of Musk was at risk of creating an ‘Agi dictatorship’.
They rejected the conditions. Musk’s answer: “Discussions are over. I will no longer finance OpenAI.”
In January 2018, Musk reportedly suggested spinning OpenAi in Tesla, and said that this was the only way to increase the required billions. “OpenAi is on a path of a certain failure compared to Google,” he wrote.
According to OpenAi, the team refused again, not prepared to become a Tesla daughter company. By February 2018, Musk resigned as co-chairman and separated ways with OpenAi.
Years later he has now returned, and this time through the courts.
In March, Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAi tried to block its transition to a structure of the dose of profit motive. A American judge denied the order But agreed with an accelerated test, set for autumn 2025.
OpenAi had earlier Brought Musk’s e -mails Earlier last year in response to the lawsuit, painting an image of a founder painting, despite his public attitude, although argued for profit, exclusivity and consolidation, years before he submitted a lawsuit.
In the midst of the chaos, Musk has set up a rival AI startup, Xai, which last month merged with x In an All-Stock deal that values Xai at $ 80 billion.
Openai, for his part, announced a $ 40 billion financing round under the leadership of Softbank and pushed its appreciation to $ 300 billion. That is almost four times the appreciation associated with the Xai startup of Musk.
“We are getting ready to build the best-equipped non-profit that the world has ever seen,” Openai said in his countersuit. “The idea that we have left the mission is incorrect. Elons own e -mails make that clear.”
Published by Sebastian Sinclair
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