ELON Musk has filed a lawsuit against an AI research company claiming that it has put profit over the development and exploration of AI technology.

Alongside the company, OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, Musk is also suing its CEO Sam Altman and its president Greg Brockman.

“OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft,” said the lawsuit which was filed on Thursday.

“Under its new Board, it is not just developing but is actually refining an AGI to maximize profits for Microsoft, rather than for the benefit of humanity.”

Musk claimed that when he helped fund the creation of OpenAI, he had an agreement with Altman and Brockman to keep the company as a nonprofit that would help the development of AI for the public, according to the lawsuit.

Musk is suing over breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices.

He also wants a warning that ensures no one, including Microsoft, can benefit from OpenAI’s technology, according to AP News.

The agreement Musk refers to also stated that it would make the company’s code available to the public so as to not profit off of it privately.

Musk’s complaint explained that the company kept the design of OpenAI’s GPT-4 model a secret, going against the company’s original mission.

“This secrecy is based on purely commercial considerations, not security,” said Musk.

OpenAI has recently developed a relationship with Microsoft and Musk alleged in the lawsuit that the company as well as Altman and Brockman have set that pact “aflame” and are “perverting” the company’s mission.

Musk saw this as a “danger to humanity,” according to Marca.

A law professor at Georgetown University has weighed in on why he think’s Musk’s is suing the AI company.

“Partly there’s an assertion of Elon’s founding role in OpenAI and generative AI technology, in particularly his claim he named OpenAI and he hired the key scientist and that he was the primary funder of its early years,” Anupam Chander said according to AP News.

“In some sense, it’s a lawsuit that tries to establish his own place in the history of generative AI.”

Musk left the AI company’s board in 2018 and went on to start his own artificial intelligence company, xAl, last year.

The U.S. Sun has contacted Elon Musk and OpenAI for comment.