ChatGPT publishes emails from Elon Musk telling them to “pursue profits” after he sued them for “deviating from their nonprofit mission.”

OpenAI has released emails from Elon Musk in an attempt to undermine its lawsuit that claims the company has strayed from its founding mission of serving as a nonprofit check on generative AI threats.

Last week, Musk filed a lawsuit against the creators of ChatGPT, a company he co-founded as a nonprofit mission, for seeking profits from partnering with Microsoft worth $13 billion and keeping the code of their new ones secret. generative artificial intelligence products.

In emails released Tuesday night, Musk appears to have supported OpenAI becoming a for-profit company in the company’s early days.

The publication of the emails marks a dramatic escalation in the dispute between Musk and the company he left in 2018 after the executive refused to be bought by Tesla.

In an email from Tesla CEO to OpenAI’s Sam Altman, dated November 2015, Musk said the company needed to raise much more than $100 million to “avoid appearing desperate.”

In another email, parts of which have been redacted, from December 2018, Musk told Altman and other executives that OpenAI would not be relevant “without a dramatic shift in execution and resources.”

“This needs billions per year immediately or forget it,” Musk wrote.

“We are sad to have come to this with someone we deeply admire, someone who inspired us to aim higher, then told us we would fail, created a competitor, and then sued us when we started making significant progress toward OpenAI’s mission without him.” , the company wrote in a blog post containing the emails.

Musk’s explosive lawsuit filed in San Francisco Superior Court last week alleges that “OpenAI, Inc. has been transformed into a de facto closed-source subsidiary of the world’s largest technology company: Microsoft.”

“Under his new Board, he is not only developing but actually refining AGI to maximize Microsoft’s profits, rather than for the benefit of humanity,” the lawsuit reads.

Musk is suing for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unfair business practices.

The tech mogul is also seeking a court order to prevent anyone, including Microsoft, from profiting from OpenAI’s technology.

“OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all humanity, which means creating safe and beneficial AGI and helping to create widely distributed benefits,” OpenAI said in a statement alongside Tuesday’s emails.

‘Now we’re sharing what we’ve learned about how to achieve our mission and some insights into our relationship with Elon.

Adding: “We intend to move to dismiss all of Elon’s claims.”