According to CCTV News, on December 1st local time, Bloomberg reported that well-known American entrepreneur Elon Musk has requested a US court to prevent OpenAI from "illegally" transforming into a for-profit enterprise.
A spokesperson for OpenAI stated that Musk's application is "repeated and still unfounded".
European experts have stated that only by ensuring the global sharing of the dividends of artificial intelligence can we avoid the gap caused by technological development. European expert in the field of artificial intelligence and CEO of Inspur, Chavoronkov, believes that OpenAI's development in the field of artificial intelligence is increasingly approaching Google's monopoly position in the search field, which is the main reason for Musk's upgraded lawsuit.
Yingke Intelligent CEO Chavoronkov: It can be seen that the motivation for creating OpenAI is to ensure that Google does not monopolize the field of artificial intelligence. It was originally established as a non-profit organization, but now OpenAI itself has become a commercial tool. If you evaluate its potential in the field of generative artificial intelligence, you will find that its potential is very, very huge, and its position in the field of generative artificial intelligence is almost monopolistic. This is very similar to what Google did in the early days of search engines.
Experts believe that artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant advantages in fields such as image recognition, positioning, and navigation. Only by ensuring global sharing of the benefits of artificial intelligence can we avoid the technological gap caused by development.
Yingke Intelligent CEO Chavoronkov: We need to ensure that as many people as possible on Earth can access this technology, start using it, benefit from it, and become more prosperous. Therefore, we need to ensure the universality of artificial intelligence.
The legal dispute between Musk and OpenAI began at the beginning of this year.
In March 2024, Musk sued OpenAI in a state court in San Francisco, but later withdrew the lawsuit. A few months later, he filed a new lawsuit in federal court. In this federal lawsuit, Musk's legal team is led by Marc Toberoff from Los Angeles, who argued in the lawsuit that OpenAI violated federal extortion laws (RICO).
In mid November of this year, Musk's legal team expanded the scope of the complaint, accusing Microsoft and OpenAI of violating antitrust laws. OpenAI reportedly demanded that its investors agree not to invest in competitor companies, including Musk's latest startup company, xAI.
An OpenAI spokesperson stated in a statement, "Elon's fourth attempt repeats the same unfounded complaints, and such an attempt is still completely worthless
With ChatGPT becoming popular worldwide, OpenAI has become one of the largest startups in recent years, helping to lead a large number of enterprises' enthusiasm for artificial intelligence and related large-scale language models.
Musk's lawyers wrote in the document, "Microsoft and OpenAI are now attempting to consolidate their dominant positions by cutting off competitors' access to investment capital, while continuing to benefit from years of competition sensitive information shared during the formation of generative artificial intelligence
The lawyers also wrote that OpenAI's requirement for investors to agree to the terms is equivalent to a "group boycott," which "hinders xAI from obtaining the necessary investment capital.
OpenAI first debuted as a non-profit organization in 2015, and then transitioned to the so-called upper limit profit model in 2019, where OpenAI's non-profit organization is the management entity of its for-profit subsidiary. Currently, it is transforming into a fully for-profit company, which may make it more attractive to investors.
In October of this year, OpenAI completed a significant round of financing with a valuation of $157 billion. Thrive Capital led the financing, and investors such as Microsoft and Nvidia also participated in the financing.
Currently, OpenAI is facing increasingly fierce competition from startups such as xAI and Anthropic, as well as tech giants like Google. According to recent data from Menlo Ventures, it is expected that the revenue of the generative artificial intelligence market will exceed $1 trillion within 10 years, and global enterprise spending on generative artificial intelligence has surged by 500% this year.