Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Inc. Elon Musk has been very critical of artificial intelligence lately, but he just dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
A document filed on Tuesday showed that the Superior Court of California threw out the complaint without prejudice. The court’s calendar showed that there would be a meeting about the case on Wednesday at 10 a.m. in San Francisco.
Musk had previously sued Altman and other top people at OpenAI, saying that they put making money ahead of helping people. The CEO of Tesla (TSLA, -1.80%), who used to be on the OpenAI board and now runs his own xAI company, said that the team seemed to be too focused on making OpenAI investor Microsoft Corp. (MSFT, +1.12%) happy.
In March, OpenAI said that Musk had agreed with the way the company was going about things. When MarketWatch asked OpenAI for a comment after Tuesday’s firing, they didn’t answer right away.
Just the day before, Musk made fun of Apple Inc. AAPL, +7.26% for making a deal with OpenAI that was announced during the WWDC keynote. With upcoming software updates, Apple will release its own AI called Apple Intelligence. The company will also let users use ChatGPT, a product of OpenAI, to carry out some complex tasks.
Apple didn’t answer MarketWatch’s request for comment on Musk’s post right away. Tesla’s media relations team has been dissolved, but MarketWatch has reached out to Musk through Tesla’s investor relations team to get his response.
The company that makes the iPhone talked a lot about privacy in its WWDC keynote on Monday and in materials sent to the press after the event. “People who use ChatGPT are protected by privacy by the fact that their IP addresses are hidden and OpenAI won’t store requests.” Apple said in a release that ChatGPT’s data-use rules apply to users who choose to connect their account.
