OpenAI, Completes For-Profit Shift
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OpenAI founder Sam Altman hit back at his former collaborator, Elon Musk, amid their ongoing feud. See details.
OpenAI is working on something big, developing its own brain-computer interface. But what does this actually mean?
In late 2024, OpenAI, still recovering from the aftershock of the brief, messy ousting of Sam Altman, initiated what it hoped would be a relatively straightforward process of converting to a more traditional for-profit business that would be more appealing to investors. Then came the pushback.
OpenAI has completed its recapitalization, splitting the AI lab into a for-profit corporation nested inside a non-profit foundation.
A memo from California’s attorney general suggested that Elon Musk’s federal lawsuit against OpenAI will be unaffected by the artificial intelligence startup’s restructuring. But now that the restructuring has occurred,
Elon Musk’s lawyer pledged to continue the billionaire’s legal crusade against OpenAI as he slammed the attorneys general of California and Delaware for not blocking the artificial intelligence startup’s restructuring as a for-profit company.
The legal battle between Elon Musk's xAI and Sam Altman's OpenAI just widened, with Musk accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing technology.
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OpenAI Researcher Mocks Elon Musk’s AGI Claim to His Face
Inveterate overpromiser Elon Musk is teasing that his chatbot Grok could soon “achieve artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — a hypothetical form of AI system that surpasses humans in virtually every way, and remains the white whale of the AI industry.
Meanwhile, Musk seized the moment to fan the flames of social media criticism, reposting an X post from Helen Toner, a former member of OpenAI’s board, who criticized OpenAI’s “dishonesty and intimidation” tactics in sending the subpoenas. “OpenAI was built on a lie,” Musk wrote in a post garnering almost 30 million views.
Elon Musk, an OpenAI co-founder who left and launched a rival startup, sued to block the restructuring, alleging it violated the company’s founding principles. Former OpenAI employees and nonprofit leaders asked regulators to stop it,