Sam Altman, Left, and Elon Musk.
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12 in support of a group of pre-ophnai employees, Alone muscus Case against Artificial Intelligence Startup, on Friday asked to share its concerns about the company’s change with court permission in a beneficial unit.
Individuals collectively worked in Openai between 2018 and 2024, which includes the formal years of the organization through their recent development, ” The request saidThe brief was filed by Lawrence Lesig with a district court in California, representing the group.
The request aims to support Musk’s arguments in his case against OpenAI and his efforts to keep the AI ​​Research Project, which Musk in 2015 co-established as a non-profit organization, by converting into a beneficial unit.
“If the OpenIE non -profit agitation agreed to a change in the openi corporate structure, which removed its controlled role, it would originally violate its mission,” the filing said.
Openi, led by CEO Sam Altman, has been commercializing products in recent years, especially its viral chatgate chatbot, which was launched in late 2022. The company is still overseeing a non-profit parent and facing significant obstacles in its goal, due to a profit, which has become one for Eliteman, which has become one for Eliteman, Chief opponent And now his own rival startup, XAI.
A Musk -led group offered to buy Openai at $ 97.4 billion in February, a bid that was rapidly rejected. Last month, Openai Funding round of $ 40 billion closed Evaluation of $ 300 billion led by SoftBank, the largest private technical funding on records.
The hybrid structure of Openai includes a capped-profit limited partnership created in 2019. The original is going to control the non-profit shareholder and will exit as an independent unit on the company’s restructuring. Openai’s enterprise Backers have received convertible notes that will turn into equity.
In the brief of Friday, Lesig wrote that, in addition to leaving its original mission, conversion to a beneficial company “based on its commitments” would dissolve the trust of employees, donors and other stakeholders, who joined and supported the organization “.
The briefly nominated East-employee Steven Adler, Rosemary Campbell, Neil Chaudhary, Jacob Hilton, Daniel Cocotazlo, Greatchen Croetor, Todor Markov, Richard Nago, Girish Satri, William Saunders, Carol Venvite and Jeffre Wu. Some have talked about their experiences in Openai in the past.
The filing stated that even in the nominated parties “there is an important interest in this litigation as it addresses fundamental questions about OpenaiI’s mission and organizational structure that he helped shape during his employment.”
A spokesman for OpenIAI told CNBC, “Our board has been very clear: our non -profit organization is not going anywhere and our mission will remain the same.” “We are converting our existing for-profit arm into a public advantage corporation-similar structure as other AI labs such as angropic, where some of these former employees now work-and XAI.”
The case between Musk and Openai has taken many turns Tesla The CEO started litigation earlier last year, alleging that the company left its founder Mission to develop. artificial intelligence “Widely for the benefit of humanity.” A federal district court last month Musk’s attempt blocked To prevent Openai’s infection for a beneficial company.
Earlier this week, Openai filed one Counting Against Musk, the world’s richest person claims that every equipment available to harm the company has tried. “This lawsuit is asking for punitive damage from musk tasks and is an prohibition to prevent it from interfering with its operation.
