California attorney general declines to join Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI

Anna Tong

Tue, Apr 15, 2025, 4:47 PM 2 min read

By Anna Tong

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The California lawyer general's bureau declined to articulation a suit by Elon Musk against OpenAI, the bureau wrote successful a missive made nationalist connected Tuesday, saying that the bureau did not spot however Musk's enactment serves the nationalist involvement of the state.

Musk, a co-founder of the ChatGPT maker, is present successful a feud with his co-founder Sam Altman, the existent OpenAI main enforcement implicit the firm's future.

OpenAI wants to region its nonprofit committee arsenic its controlling powerfulness successful speech for a invaluable equity stake. Musk's suit argues that this would endanger the nonprofit's ngo and helium had asked the authorities to articulation the lawsuit.

In the missive dated Monday, the lawyer wide said Musk had not adequately shown that doing truthful would payment the nationalist and that Musk appeared to privation to usage OpenAI's charitable assets for his ain purposes. In February, a Musk-led consortium made an unsolicited $97 cardinal bid for power of OpenAI.

The California lawyer general's bureau would besides request to o.k. OpenAI's projected nonprofit modulation due to the fact that OpenAI is based successful California. Entities including Meta and a radical of philanthropic leaders person written to the lawyer wide urging it to halt OpenAI's transition.

OpenAI has argued that it needs to region the nonprofit's controlling relation successful bid to rise funds from investors. To unafraid a $40 cardinal fundraising round, the institution indispensable implicit its modulation by the extremity of the year. The nonprofit volition clasp a involvement successful OpenAI that volition go progressively invaluable arsenic the institution grows, providing resources to transportation retired its mission, the institution argues.

Musk and Altman cofounded ChatGPT shaper OpenAI successful 2015, but Musk near earlier the institution became a exertion star. Last year, Musk, who is besides the CEO of electrical carmaker Tesla, sued OpenAI and Altman, accusing OpenAI of straying from its founding ngo - to make AI for the bully of humanity, not firm profit.

OpenAI and Altman person denied the allegations. The 2 parties are acceptable to statesman a assemblage proceedings successful outpouring adjacent year.

Musk besides created his ain AI firm, xAI, successful 2023, and Altman alleges that Musk has been trying to dilatory down a competitor.

(Reporting by Anna Tong successful San Francisco; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)