Elon Musk sued ChatGPT creator OpenAI and its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on Thursday, accusing the company of breaching its founding agreement and working to maximize profits for a major investor instead of humanity at large. Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but left from the company in 2018.

The lawsuit, which was filed Thursday in a San Francisco Superior Court, focused on OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft.

^{Elon Musk, owner of Tesla and the X platform (formerly Twitter). Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images}

“Under its new Board, (OpenAI) is not only developing, but actually developing an AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity,” it said. in the file.

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In the lawsuit, Musk reinforced his part in the founding story of OpenAI and stated that Altman and Brockman had approached him in 2015 to create a non-profit open source company that would benefit humanity. The lawsuit alleged that OpenAI “set fire to the founding agreement” last year when it released its latest GPT-4, which the lawsuit called a Microsoft product.

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Musk asked the court to make OpenAI's research and technology publicly available and to stop Microsoft and OpenAI executives from profiting financially from it.

Microsoft's multi-year $13 billion OpenAI partnership is one of them regulators in the US and the UK are preparing to investigate. Microsoft THERE a 49% stake in the profitable side of OpenAI and can benefit from OpenAI's advances in products like Word, Excel and Outlook.

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Musk launched an AI company of his own last year called xAI, which stands in direct competition with OpenAI offerings. xAI has already secured 500 million dollars from investors.