Musk’s Bid to Control OpenAI Complicates For-Profit Transition (1)

Feb. 12, 2025, 3:22 AM UTC

A decade ago, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and a group of other founders launched OpenAI as a nonprofit with a mission to build artificial intelligence that benefits humanity. Now, Altman and OpenAI are pushing to restructure as a more conventional for-profit business — and Musk is using every tool at his disposal to stop it.

Musk, who has since launched a rival AI firm, has fired off angry posts about Altman on his social media platform, filed two lawsuits against the company for allegedly straying from its founding principles and asked a court to block the ChatGPT maker’s restructuring efforts. ...

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