open artificial intelligence Founder issues scathing response Elon Musk lawsuit On Tuesday night, it was claimed that Musk seized power in 2017 to achieve “absolute control” of the artificial intelligence startup.The emails show that Musk initially intended to make the startup less open source and less profitable, although he has now Sue OpenAI for these reasons. The key difference is that Musk is no longer in charge.
“In late 2017, Elon and we decided that the next step was to create a for-profit entity,” OpenAI’s founders said in a statement. blog post. “Elon wanted to take majority ownership, initial board control and serve as CEO. During these discussions, he declined to provide funding.”
The response was filled with interesting details and several internal emails were made public. Emails show that Musk was fully aware of OpenAI’s intentions to raise funds as early as 2016, and became less open about it as the startup matured. Musk got on board at the time and even tried to incorporate OpenAI into Tesla, noting that it would need billions of dollars in funding to compete with Google. When OpenAI rejected the offer, Musk left, saying OpenAI had zero chance of success and that he would create an AI competitor within Tesla.
“Without significant changes in execution and resources, my probability assessment of OpenAI being related to DeepMind/Google is 0%. Not 1%. I hope that is not the case.” Musk said in an email to the founder of OpenAI Zhong said.
An internal email revealed that the word “open” in OpenAI does not mean open source at all. In 2016, Musk responded “yes” in an email from OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, which described what the name really meant and noted that early open source AI models were just a recruitment strategy.
“As we get closer to building artificial intelligence, it makes sense to start being less open,” Sutskover said in an email. “Openness in openAI means that everyone should benefit from the results of AI as it is built, but it is perfectly okay not to share the science.”
The response was written by OpenAI founders Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, John Schulman, Wojciech Zaremba and, most notably, Ilya Sutskever.chief scientist’s His position in the company has been up in the air It was Suzkweil’s first sign of life in nearly four months, since he led the campaign to fire Sam Altman last November. Altman declined in multiple interviews to answer whether he still worked for the company.
Another detail in this blog post is Chat GPT Currently, there are more than 100 million daily active users. OpenAI reaches 100 million weekly active users Back to November 2023but now the founder of OpenAI says “hundreds of millions of people use [the free version of ChatGPT] every day. “
For at least eight years, OpenAI has been planning internally to become profitable and hide its best artificial intelligence models. Musk seems to have known about them all along. These plans have not been made public until now, which may be the purpose of Musk’s lawsuit. The emails suggest that Musk’s real complaint is that he is no longer running OpenAI.