OpenAI filed a response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit in California state court, seeking the designation of “complex” pursuant to California Rule of Court 3.400.
Yet, the response seems far more a refutation of Musk’s claims. OpenAI says basically Musk is having remorse for abandoning OpenAI and now having to watch the company succeed:
“Though an early supporter and board member of OpenAI, Inc. (together with its affiliates, “OpenAI”), Plaintiff Elon Musk quit the company years ago and started his own for-profit AI business. Were this case to proceed to discovery, the evidence would show that Musk supported a for-profit structure for OpenAI, to be controlled by Musk himself, and dropped the project when his wishes were not followed. Seeing the remarkable technological advances OpenAI has achieved, Musk now wants that success for himself. So he brings this action accusing Defendants of breaching a contract that never existed and duties Musk was never owed, demanding relief calculated to benefit a competitor to OpenAI. Musk purports to bring this suit for humanity, Compl. ¶ 33, when the truth—evident even from the face of Musk’s contradictory pleading—is that he brings it to advance his own commercial interests.”
OpenAI response to Elon Musk lawsuit