OpenAI hits back in Elon Musk lawsuits

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OpenAI is spilling the tea and showing up with receipts. The company behind ChatGPT has responded to Elon Musk’s recent lawsuit and didn’t hold back any punches in revealing their side of the story.

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• OpenAI hits back in Elon Musk lawsuit

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OpenAI hits back in Elon Musk lawsuit

What happened

Elon Musk sued OpenAI in a lawsuit last week that alleged that the startup had abandoned its original mission and started chasing profits instead. OpenAI has now responded to the lawsuit in full force with some startling claims of what went down behind the scenes.

What was said

In a blog posted yesterday, OpenAI claim that after initial discussions around fundraising, all parties - including Musk - came to an understanding that OpenAI would need to pivot to a for-profit structure to raise the billions necessary to achieve its mission.

OpenAI alleges that Musk wanted to acquire complete control of the company or have it be merged with Tesla. OpenAI asserts that they couldn’t agree to terms on a for-profit with Musk because they felt it was against the mission for any individual to have absolute control. They claim Musk decided to leave OpenAI to build his own AI competitor within Tesla after stating that OpenAI’s “probability of success was 0.”

OpenAI argues that Musk understood that the company’s mission did not imply open-sourcing AGI. OpenAI shared several alleged images of email conversations between the parties to back their claims.

Why it matters

The stakes couldn’t be higher. Markets expect generative AI to be one of the biggest driving forces for the global economy in the coming years, and OpenAI is the poster child of the gen AI wave. With lawsuits from Musk, the New York Times, and others, OpenAI finds itself under attack on multiple fronts.

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How to test multiple AI chatbots simultaneously

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CHART

How AI-powered robotics will impact productivity

Investment firm Ark Invest believes that recent breakthroughs in AI and computer vision will enable robots to operate cost-effectively in unstructured environments, which will unlock significant productivity gains and new revenue opportunities.

Ark estimates that the revenue opportunity from household robotics and manufacturing robotics to be in the region of $24 Trillion. Ark invests in disruptive innovation companies and has made several similar bold predictions in the past, with a mixed track record when it comes to results.

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FUNDING & ACQUISITIONS

The biggest funding deals in AI this week

• Tech giant Alibaba invests $600M in Chinese AI startup MiniMax, in a deal that values the startup at $2.5B. Minimax builds ChatGPT-like services.

• Blackrock invests $75M in RapidSOS, an AI startup that helps emergency response teams.

• AI productivity startup Ema announces $25M raise to build a ‘Universal AI employee.’

• Overjet, an AI platform for dentists, has raised $53.2 million in Series C funding, marking the largest ever AI investment in the dental field.

• Baseten raises $40M to make it easier for companies to deploy AI applications.

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