OpenAI said it will ask a California judge on Friday to reject a request by billionaire Elon Musk to stop the creator of ChatGPT from converting into a for-profit company.
OpenAI also published a trove of emails and text messages with Musk on its website to argue that he initially supported for-profit status for OpenAI before leaving the company after failing to obtain a majority stake and full control.
Musk, who was a co-founder of OpenAI, has since launched a competing artificial intelligence company, xAI.
Musk sued OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman and others in August, alleging they violated contract provisions by putting profits ahead of the public good in the effort to advance AI. In November he asked U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland for a preliminary injunction blocking OpenAI from converting to a for-profit entity.
A lawyer for Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.
OpenAI’s blog post said Musk “must compete in the marketplace, not the courtroom.”
Musk has since added Microsoft and others as defendants in his lawsuit, alleging that OpenAI was planning to sideline rivals and monopolize the market for generative artificial intelligence.
OpenAI started as a non-profit organization in 2014 and has become the face of generative artificial intelligence through billions of dollars in funding from Microsoft. In October, it closed a $6.6 billion funding round from investors that could value the company at $157 billion.
Musk’s XAI earlier this month said it had raised about $6 billion in equity funding.
OpenAI is working on a plan to restructure its core business into a for-profit corporation.
The nonprofit OpenAI would own a minority stake in the for-profit company.
Rogers is scheduled to hear arguments on Musk’s injunction offer on Jan. 14.
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