Over three months later PRESENTATION a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of going against its original mission, Elon Musk is dropping the lawsuit.

Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI, but left in 2018 and now owns rival AI startup xAI. He sued OpenAI in late February in California state court, alleging that ChatGPT's creator was going against its founding principles of open source and creating AI “to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity”.

His lawsuit prompted OpenAI executives RELEASE internal emails he sent from 2015 to 2018 encouraging them to seek funding.

Musk filed to dismiss the suit on Tuesday and the case was dismissed, according to court documents obtained by CNBC. ^{Elon Musk, co-founder of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of X. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)}

The case could have been dismissed without Musk giving up. OpenAI had already moved to dismiss Musk's claims, and a judge would rule on the matter at a hearing originally scheduled for Wednesday in San Francisco, according to CNBC.

Although the case is over, Musk is still publicly calling out OpenAI.

On Monday, Musk criticized of Apple DECISION to work with OpenAI and bring ChatGPT to iPhone and said he would ban Apple devices at his companies.

it has written“Apple has no idea what's really going on after they hand over your data to OpenAI. They're selling you down the river.”

Musk has before called Google, OpenAI and Meta AI efforts and raised $6 billion last month for his AI startup.

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