Musk vs Open AI

Altman hits back: Musk made hair-raising proposals

Sam Altman hit back at Elon Musk's accusations of exploiting Open AI's non-profit structure for his own gain when he testified in court on Tuesday, Bloomberg reports.

The Open AI boss says he became "extremely uncomfortable" when Musk demanded full control of a planned for-profit subsidiary in 2017. Altman describes it as "particularly hair-raising" when Musk, when asked what would happen if he died, replied that control could pass to his children.

- I didn't feel comfortable with that, Altman said in court.

The testimony came in the final stages of the trial, where Musk accuses OpenAI of abandoning its non-profit mission to make money together with Microsoft.

Elon Musk vs. Open AI – the question is this

• Elon Musk has sued Open AI CEO Sam Altman over the company's transformation from non-profit to for-profit.
• Open AI was founded in 2015 as a non-profit organization, but created a commercial structure in 2019 to raise capital.
• Musk, who invested over $44 million in Open AI early on, says the change violates the company's original purpose.
• He demands that profits be returned to the non-profit part of Open AI and that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman leave the management.
• Open AI believes that the lawsuit is mainly about weakening the competitor in favor of Musk's own AI company X AI.