Sam Altman’s Legal professionals Roasted Elon Musk in a New Court docket Submitting

In the event you let Sam Altman’s attorneys inform it, Elon Musk’s ongoing battle in opposition to OpenAI stems from his private vendetta in opposition to Altman and OpenAI — an organization that has seen its enterprise growth because it refused to cede management to Musk in 2018.

In a Wednesday submitting associated to Musk’s August 2024 lawsuit in opposition to OpenAI, attorneys for Altman and the corporate laid out Altman’s model of occasions that led to the breakup between the 2 tech titans. It has been probably the most detailed account to date of Altman’s facet of what went down in his combat with Musk.

“Musk couldn’t tolerate seeing such success for an enterprise he had deserted and declared doomed,” the submitting learn. “He made it his undertaking to take down OpenAI, and to construct a direct competitor that may seize the technological lead—not for humanity however for Elon Musk.”

The submitting continued: “The following marketing campaign has been relentless. By press assaults, malicious campaigns broadcast to Musk’s greater than 200 million followers on the social media platform he controls, a pretextual demand for company information, harassing authorized claims, and a sham bid for OpenAI’s property, Musk has tried each instrument out there to hurt OpenAI.”

OpenAI’s submitting on Wednesday got here the identical day the choose within the case set a March 2026 trial date on this conflict of titans lawsuit. The corporate’s attorneys didn’t reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.

OpenAI mentioned it was counter-suing Musk in a scathing collection of X posts revealed on Wednesday. The ChatGPT maker additionally pointed to older weblog posts it had revealed on their pivot from a nonprofit method in addition to their e mail exchanges with Musk.

“Elon’s nonstop actions in opposition to us are simply bad-faith techniques to decelerate OpenAI and seize management of the main AI improvements for his private profit,” OpenAI wrote on X on Wednesday.

“Elon’s by no means been concerning the mission. He is at all times had his personal agenda. He tried to grab management of OpenAI and merge it with Tesla as a for-profit — his personal emails show it. When he did not get his manner, he stormed off,” the corporate added.

Representatives for OpenAI referred BI to its current X posts and the Wednesday submitting when contacted for remark.

Musk cofounded OpenAI with Altman in 2015 however left the corporate’s board in 2018. Musk mentioned in 2019 that he left as a result of Tesla was competing for a similar expertise as OpenAI. Musk mentioned he additionally “did not agree with a few of what the OpenAI staff needed to do. Musk didn’t specify what these variations had been.

Since then, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has been a vocal critic of Altman’s management of OpenAI. Musk had initially filed a lawsuit in opposition to OpenAI in February 2024 however withdrew it in June. He later refiled the lawsuit in August.

In his lawsuit, Musk accused OpenAI of violating its nonprofit mission by partnering with Microsoft. Musk’s attorneys argued that OpenAI’s executives “deceived” him into cofounding the corporate by enjoying on his fears about AI’s existential dangers.

In February, an Elon-Musk-led investor group made a $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI. Altman dismissed Musk’s unsolicited takeover bid.

“The corporate will not be on the market, neither is the mission,” Altman mentioned of Musk’s bid in an interview with Sky Information in February.

Musk didn’t reply to a request for remark from BI.