OpenAI is suing Elon Musk for unfair competitors and interfering with its enterprise relationships with traders and prospects, escalating a authorized battle between the ChatGPT maker and the billionaire who helped bankroll the factitious intelligence startup a decade in the past.
The allegations in opposition to Musk have been filed Wednesday in a federal court docket in California as a counterclaim to Musk’s lawsuit in opposition to OpenAI, which is heading to a jury trial subsequent yr.
Musk, an early OpenAI investor who now runs his personal AI agency, xAI, started a authorized offensive in opposition to OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman greater than a yr in the past, suing for breach of contract over what he stated was the betrayal of its founding goals as a nonprofit analysis laboratory.
A federal choose in March denied Musk’s request for a court docket order blocking OpenAI from changing itself to a for-profit firm however stated she might expedite a trial to think about Musk’s claims.
She supplied to carry a trial later this yr, but it surely has been pushed again to March 2026.
