Elon Musk gives another slap to OpenAI: he announces that he will release the code of Grok, his AI chatbot

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After deciding a few days ago to sue OpenAI , a company he was once involved in founding, Elon Musk announced yesterday what many understand as a resounding slap in the face (yet another) against ChatGPT's parent company. The South African tycoon announced on Monday his intention to release this week the code of Grok, his AI chatbot (and direct rival of ChatGPT).


In the complaint that Musk filed a few days ago against OpenAI, the owner of X (formerly Twitter) laments that the multi-million dollar agreement signed between the company led by Sam Altman and Microsoft violates the company's founding commitment to put the benefits for humanity before obtaining profits on the economic level.

The suit accuses OpenAI of breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and unfair business practices. In addition, Elon Musk is asking OpenAI to release its technology to the public.

“OpenAI has transformed into a de facto closed-source subsidiary of the world’s largest technology company: Microsoft ,” the Tesla CEO says in the lawsuit. “Under its new board of directors, OpenAI is not only developing but also refining artificial bolivia whatsapp data general intelligence to maximize Microsoft ’s profits rather than working for the benefit of humanity,” Musk adds.

The company led by Sam Altman rejects what Elon Musk accuses it of in his lawsuit
In July 2023, Elon Musk lifted the curtain on his own AI company: xAI. And a few months later, in November last year, the South African entrepreneur announced on X that he would launch Grok, his first AI product, to “a select group of users . ” Even though xAI is supposedly an independent company from X, Elon Musk’s social network, the company’s website claims that it works very closely with both X and the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla.

OpenAI , which Elon Musk co-founded with Sam Altman in 2015 before parting ways with the company in 2018, responded to the South African’s lawsuit last week with a blog post that included screenshots of Musk’s emails from his time working at ChatGPT’s parent company. In the emails, Musk argued for OpenAI’s transformation into a profit-driven company and encouraged its merger with Tesla to more effectively compete with Google’s AI efforts.

“Elon left OpenAI saying that there was a need for a truly relevant competitor to Google/DeepMind and that he would build the foundations for that rival ,” ChatGPT’s parent company says on its corporate blog. “He also told us that he would support us in finding our own path,” OpenAI adds in its response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit.