Musk’s suit essentially accuses OpenAI of straying from its founding nonprofit mission: ensuring AGI, a highly capable AI system that can perform a wide range of jobs, benefits humanity. The defendants in the case are OpenAI, Altman, OpenAI’s President and cofounder Greg Brockman, and OpenAI’s biggest investor, Microsoft. Despite generating billions of dollars in revenue, OpenAI is still overseen by a nonprofit today. Musk was one of the original cofounders of the OpenAI nonprofit and donated about $38 million to it during those early days, but he split off in 2018 after getting into disagreem
Musk v. Altman Is a Battle for OpenAI’s Soul… In its early days, OpenAI told investors and employees that its nonprofit mission took precedence over generating profit. Brockman testified that his financial interests are still, to this day, second to OpenAI’s nonprofit mission. …
… She cited Ilya Sutskever’s testimony that “the mission of OpenAI is larger than a structure.” Eddy went on to say that if OpenAI hadn’t obtained the funds it needed, the mission would have collapsed. …
… I think we’re still seeing a lot of things that OpenAI is doing that, in my view, aren’t really consistent with its mission. …
… Zilis said it was a good question, but said she had “talked to Greg Brockman today and he clearly had no idea …” It was already known that Musk wanted OpenAI to merge with Tesla, but evidence presented on Wednesday revealed new details about the plans. …
… But my experience with Rabin’s Onix revealed a troubling aspect of the system. …
… Musk told the court that his concerns about OpenAI straying from its mission to do social good with AI escalated over time, and they finally began boiling over around 2023. “Only recently has it been obvious that the charity had been stolen,” he said Thursday. …
… Fortunately, Artemis missions are planned up through 2030 at least. I think the plan is to actually land humans on the moon by 2030. So we've at least got a few more good years of this mission and learnings from it, but it does make you remember a time when it's OK for the government to do things. …
… Beyond the many battles, WIRED revealed how one small New Hampshire town is having its police department’s salaries and other costs covered by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Nearly a thousand other police departments around the US appear to be doing the same thing. …
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… Google's very clearly committed to this. It's clearly how they want the web to work. …