PANews reported on December 1 that according to NetEase News, Elon Musk's lawyers have applied for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investor and close collaborator Microsoft to prevent OpenAI and other defendants from engaging in anti-competitive behavior claimed by Musk's lawyers.
The motion for an injunction, filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accuses OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, its president Greg Brockman, Microsoft, LinkedIn co-founder and former OpenAI board member Reid Hoffman, and former OpenAI board member and Microsoft vice president Dee Templeton of engaging in various illegal activities and attempting to stop them. The charges include:
Prevent investors from backing OpenAI’s competitors, such as Musk’s own artificial intelligence company xAI.
Benefited from "improperly obtained competitively sensitive information" through OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft.
Transition OpenAI’s governance structure to a for-profit organization and “transfer any significant assets, including intellectual property owned, held, or controlled by OpenAI, its subsidiaries, or affiliates.”
Cause OpenAI to do business with any organization in which the defendant has a "significant financial interest."
Musk's lawyers claimed that if the injunction is not granted, "irreparable harm" will be caused.
