Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on June 11th. The suit, which initially made headlines in March, alleged breach of contract and fiduciary duty, reflecting Musk's dissatisfaction with OpenAI's shift from its original open-source mission to a more profit-driven model. Many speculated that the lawsuit aimed to realign OpenAI with its founding principles, though its legal validity was questionable. Despite withdrawing the suit, Musk remains critical of OpenAI, recently condemning its partnership with Apple and questioning the company's commitment to security and privacy on social media platform X.
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00:00Tesla founder Elon Musk was suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for breach of
00:05contract, but dropped the suit on June 11th. News of Elon Musk filing a lawsuit
00:11against OpenAI and its founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman broke back in
00:16early March. In technical terms, Elon Musk sued OpenAI for alleged breach of
00:21contract and fiduciary duty. To put it more simply, Musk was involved in the
00:25founding and funding of OpenAI and was upset with the direction the company is
00:29taking. OpenAI was originally supposed to be open-source, meaning freely
00:34available to the public to benefit all of humanity, instead of pursuing profit.
00:38While many believe the lawsuit was an attempt to push OpenAI back towards its
00:42original mission, it doesn't seem that will be happening as the lawsuit held
00:47questionable legal ground. But Musk is still not happy with Altman, as he
00:51recently condemned OpenAI for its recent partnership with Apple, writing on X,
00:56It's patently absurd that Apple isn't smart enough to make their own AI, yet
01:00is somehow capable of ensuring that OpenAI will protect your security and
01:04privacy. Apple has no clue what's going on once they hand your data over to
01:08OpenAI. They're sailing you down the river.