In an amendment to his OpenAI lawsuit, Elon Musk now charges Microsoft with trying to "monopolize the generative AI market."
The Verge reports that Elon Musk has amended his case against OpenAI for fraud, breach of contract, and racketeering, adding antitrust allegations against Microsoft.
According to the newspaper, which cited the updated complaint filed on Thursday, he is now accusing both businesses of trying to "monopolize the generative AI market."
Microsoft is named in the complaint, along with Reid Hoffman, a co-founder of LinkedIn, and Dee Templeton, a vice president at Microsoft and a former member of the OpenAI board. This is separate from Greg Brockman and Sam Altman, co-founders of OpenAI.
Along with Altman and Brockman, Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015; he departed the business in 2018. After that, Microsoft invested $14 billion in OpenAI in 2019 and now has a 49% ownership in its for-profit subsidiary in addition to the exclusive rights to commercially license its technology.
By exchanging "competitively sensitive information," Elon Musk's attorneys contend that Altman "engaged in rampant self-dealing" to establish a "de facto merger" between the two businesses in order to encourage anticompetitive conduct and are "actively trying to eliminate competitors."
Because of this, its investors are deterred from also backing competitors like Musk's xAI.
OpenAI secured $6.6 billion in October to develop more potent AI models, while xAI raised $6 billion in its own investment round in March. At the moment, both companies are vying for funding.
All of this is in addition to Musk's earlier case, which he filed in March and then abruptly ended in June. It claimed that OpenAI had broken its original commitment to create AI that would advance humankind.
Referring to the lawsuit as a "PR stunt" and a "increasingly blustery campaign to harass OpenAI for his own competitive advantage," OpenAI made repeated attempts to get it dismissed.
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