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OpenAI has published emails from Elon Musk in an attempt to undermine his lawsuit that claims the company has strayed from its founding mission to serve as non-profit check on the threats of generative AI. 

Musk last week filed a lawsuit against the ChatGPT makers, a company he co-founded as a nonprofit mission, for seeking profit by entering into a $13 billion partnership with Microsoft and keeping the code for its newest generative AI products a secret.

In the emails published Tuesday night Musk appears to have supported OpenAI becoming a for-profit company in the early days of the venture. 

The publication of the emails marks a dramatic escalation in the feud between Musk and the company he left in 2018 after executive refused to be bought out by Tesla. 

In one email from the Tesla CEO to OpenAI’s Sam Altman, dated November 2015, Musk said the company needed to raise much more than $100 million to ‘avoid sounding hopeless.’ 

Elon Musk last week filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for chasing profit by partnering with Microsoft for $13 billion and keeping the code for its newest generative AI products a secret

Elon Musk last week filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for chasing profit by partnering with Microsoft for $13 billion and keeping the code for its newest generative AI products a secret

Sam Altman has been credited with turning OpenAI into a company with a $90billion valuation

Sam Altman has been credited with turning OpenAI into a company with a $90billion valuation

In another email, parts of which have been redacted, from December 2018, Musk told Altman and other executives that OpenAI would not be relevant ‘without a dramatic change in execution and resources.’

‘This needs billions per year immediately or forget it,’ Musk wrote.

‘We’re sad that it’s come to this with someone whom we’ve deeply admired—someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, started a competitor, and then sued us when we started making meaningful progress towards OpenAI’s mission without him,’ the company wrote in a blog post containing the emails. 

Musk’s bombshell lawsuit filed at San Francisco Superior Court last week alleges that ‘OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a closed-source de facto subsidiary of the largest technology company in the world: Microsoft.’

‘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’ the suit reads. 

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

In November 2015 Elon Musk wrote that the company needed $100million to avoid 'sounding hopeless'

In November 2015 Elon Musk wrote that the company needed $100million to avoid ‘sounding hopeless’ 

In an email from December 2018 Musk told Altman and other executives the company needed to make 'billions per year'

In an email from December 2018 Musk told Altman and other executives the company needed to make ‘billions per year’ 

The technology tycoon is also seeking an injunction to prevent anyone, including Microsoft, from benefiting from OpenAI’s technology. 

‘The mission of OpenAI is to ensure AGI benefits all of humanity, which means both building safe and beneficial AGI and helping create broadly distributed benefits’ OpenAI said in a statement alongside the emails on Tuesday.

‘We are now sharing what we’ve learned about achieving our mission, and some facts about our relationship with Elon. 

Adding: ‘We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon’s claims.’ 

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