Musk has sued Altman, OpenAI, Brockman, and Microsoft, among others, for reneging on OpenAI’s founding mission and turning it into a for-profit business.
Elon Musk may well lose his lawsuit against Sam Altman, with whom he had co-founded OpenAI as a not-for-profit AI research organisation working to democratise the technology. But till then, it promises to be the most interesting corporate soap opera the world has ever seen. Among other things, it is bringing back to the limelight the firing of Altman by OpenAI’s former board last year before he came roaring back to retake the saddle and got rid of them,...