Summary
- Elon Musk has asked a California court to withdraw a legal case against OpenAI and its boss Sam Altman, accusing them of deviating from the firm’s mission of developing AI for the benefit of humanity.
- The filing to drop the case was made without providing a reason, just before a scheduled hearing.
- OpenAI countered by pointing out that Musk had previously supported a for-profit structure and even suggested a merger with Tesla.
- Musk started his own AI company, xAI, in 2023, and launched Grok, a chatbot to rival ChatGPT.