Musk has long been dissatisfied with Microsoft and is suing OpenAI this time.

Source: New Silicon NewGeek

On Friday, Musk took OpenAI to court.

On the surface, Musk is accusing OpenAI of being obsessed with making money, but if you look closely, it seems that he is at odds with Microsoft again.

This is not the first time that Musk and Microsoft are at loggerheads. When buying a new computer, he has to criticize Microsoft.

But let’s review what happened this time.

Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in court on March 1, Beijing time, accusing them of violating the agreement signed when OpenAI was founded, namely for humanity. Develop technology for profit rather than profit.

OpenAI’s recent relationship with Microsoft undermines the company’s original goal of working on public, open source AGI.

The lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, accuses OpenAI and its executives of violating contractual and fiduciary obligations and try to force OpenAI to stick to its original mission.

Musk also requested an injunction to prevent OpenAI and Microsoft from profiting from the company's general artificial intelligence technology. In addition, Musk is seeking compensation, the amount of which is not yet clear, and has stated that any compensation from the lawsuit will be provided to non-profit organizations or charities

Musk will also present emails exchanged with Altman as evidence in the lawsuit .

This email shows Musk and Altman working on creating a security-based Early plans and discussions for the Center’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The discussion covered mission, expansion plans, governance structure and how they openly communicate and align their progress.

Altmann also suggested strategies for waiting for the right moment to handle regulatory letters and considered questions about the constraints needed to keep the world safe.

Musk wrote in the lawsuit: "Only OpenAI knows the internal details of GPT4 , in terms of information and beliefs, Microsoft also knows.”

GPT4 is therefore the antithesis of “open AI” and is closed for legitimate business reasons: Microsoft hopes to Selling GPT4 to make money is impossible to allow the public to use this technology for free.

Contrary to the founding agreement, the defendants chose to use GPT4 not for the benefit of humanity, but as a patented technology to maximize profits for the largest companies in the world.

In a simple sentence, Musk feels that OpenAI has forgotten its roots. Not only is it not open source, especially after Microsoft invested, Microsoft and OpenAI Making money usingGPT.

Not just now, in fact Musk has long been at odds with Microsoft.

First of all, as mentioned earlier, on February 27th, Musk complained about Win11. You must log in to a Microsoft account to use a PC. He also commented on Microsoft CEO Nadella’s twitter about how much it costs to register a Microsoft account. trouble.

To be fair, Musk has never done anything in China.

Other Microsoft software has also been criticized by Musk.

For example, during the OpenAI "coup" last November, Musk satirized Microsoft's cloud conferencing software Teams, which was like an old politician and not suitable for OpenAI's talented employees like Microsoft: Let these people pursue their feelings. of people use Microsoft Teams for work, how long do you think they can stay?

In early 2023, when Microsoft and OpenAI entered into a strategic cooperation, they successively launched projects in Bing and Office. When ChatGPT was integrated into Microsoft software such as the three-piece office suite, and Azure ChatGPT based on Microsoft cloud computing was launched.

Musk mocked on Twitter: "Microsoft will become the God of the AI ​​era!"

As for the complaints above, Musk is still relatively restrained in his eccentricity. In April 2023, Musk went to war with Microsoft and stated that he would sue Microsoft.

After Musk bought Twitter, he made a series of adjustments to Twitter’s API. Then Smart Campaigns, a social media advertising management service owned by Microsoft, announced that it would no longer support Twitter. This will undoubtedly make Musk business interests are damaged.

This incident became a trigger. Instead of debating advertising management services, Musk attacked Microsoft for illegally using Twitter data for artificial intelligence training and said it was time to sue.

It was not found out whether Sijijun was sued in the end, but it is worth noting This verbal battle took place two days after Musk officially announced his entry into the AI ​​​​track.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates also did not escape Musk’s poisonous words. The reason is still AI.

Under a Twitter user's article about Bill Gates's overall optimism about AI, Musk replied that he still remembered the early meeting with Gates, who had limited understanding of AI at the time. This is still the case.

The above is part of the war of words between Musk and Microsoft in the past year . Although it is nothing new for Musk to like to criticize people online, even Editor Hu who is far away across the ocean has been criticized.

But Musk’s criticism of Lao Hu and his team at Microsoft are not the same. They are too purposeful. It’s clear: Open the way for your ownAItool Grok.

Not long after Musk sued OpenAI this time, Twitter’s AI tool Grok 1.5 will be released.

To this end, Musk has made many other preparations on Twitter.

On February 22, Musk wrote that his Grok is different from the current leading OpenAI and Gemini. Grok can lead mankind to a bright future.

A few days earlier, on February 18th and 19th, Musk tweeted I recalled the original intention of OpenAI's creation, and asked what OpenAI is doing now that deviates from the original intention.

Not long ago, when Google’s Gemini generated a black version of Musk, causing issues of “racial discrimination”, Musk took the lead and advertised his own Grok.

Musk, as a "pure" businessman, knows how to use his influence on social media.

He knows the power of a tweet that can instantly attract global attention. Whether by publishing predictions about future technologies or by publicly discussing his business plans, he is able to effectively use his influence to generate buzz and traffic for his company and projects.

So it can be said that Musk is the only person in Tesla’s public relations department.

Didn’t the ideal CEO Li Xiang also learn this trick and save his company more than one billion?

For example, in 2018, Musk tweeted that he was considering taking Tesla private at a price of $420 per share. This tweet immediately triggered a violent reaction in the market, causing Tesla to Stock prices fluctuate significantly in a short period of time.

In 2021, Musk tweeted: "SpaceX will put a Dogecoin sent to the moon”. The price of Dogecoin was the first to ride the rocket. In just one hour, Dogecoin rose from about US$0.054 per coin to about US$0.069 at its highest point, an increase of 27%.

Musk also made a lot of money.

So this time Musk is suing OpenAI, maybe because he wants to generate some traffic for his Grok.

But having said that, as an ordinary person, it’s quite satisfying to watch big guys quarreling.