Elon MuskElon Reeve Musk (English: Elon Reeve Musk, /ˈiːlɒn ˈmʌsk/) is a Canadian-American engineer, inventor, is suing the company OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, among others, accusing them of breaching contractual agreements made, when Musk helped found ChatGPT in 2015, Reuters reported, citing a lawsuit filed on Thursday in San Francisco.

The lawsuit says Altman, along with OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman, initially approached Musk about starting a nonprofit, open-source company that would develop artificial intelligence technology for the "good of humanity."

But the Microsoft-backed company's focus on seeking profits violates that agreement, Musk's lawyers said in the lawsuit.

OpenAI and Microsoft, as well as Elon Musk himself Elon Reeve Musk (English: Elon Reeve Musk, /ˈiːlɒn ˈmʌsk/) is a Canadian-American engineer, inventor, did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Reuters.

The agency reminds that Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but stepped down from the company's board in 2018. Elon Musk Elon Reeve Musk (English: Elon Reeve Musk, /ˈiːlɒn ˈmʌsk/) is a Canadian-American engineer, inventor, is the head of electric vehicle maker Tesla, and in October 2022 bought the social media platform Twitter for $44 billion, then renamed it X.

Musk claims he was offered shares in OpenAI.

He refused, it seemed unethical

ChatGPT, OpenAI's chatbot, became the world's fastest-growing software application within six months of its launch in November 2022. It also sparked the launch of competing chatbots by tech giants such as Microsoft and Alphabet (the parent of Google) and by a series of start-up companies that took advantage of the advertising to secure multibillion-dollar funding, BNR writes.

Since its debut, ChatGPT has been adopted by many companies for a wide range of tasks, from summarizing documents to writing computer code, sparking a race among major tech companies to launch their own generative artificial intelligence (AI) offerings.

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