Musk sues OpenAI, alleging breach of open source mission; OpenAI counters he approved going for-profit
• Musk said his AI company xAI will make chatbot Grok open source after suing OpenAI for straying from original open source mission • Musk sued OpenAI, CEO Altman, and co-founder Brockman for breach of contract, alleging they abandoned founding agreement to be a nonprofit and remain open source • Musk claims OpenAI now developing AI to "maximize profits for Microsoft" instead of for benefit of humanity • OpenAI fired back that Musk supported making it a for-profit entity and wanted it to merge with Tesla or give him full control • OpenAI points to 2016 email from chief scientist saying as AI progresses “it will make sense to start being less open” which Musk agreed to