Elon Musk has withdrawn his lawsuit against OpenAI and its chief executive Sam Altman three months after he accused them of compromising the start-up’s original mission to benefit humanity.
The billionaire owner of X and chief executive of Tesla filed to voluntarily dismiss his breach of contract claims at a San Francisco court on Tuesday. The filing did not elaborate on the reason for the dismissal.
In March, Musk had sued the $86bn start-up behind the popular chatbot ChatGPT, alleging its multibillion-dollar alliance with Microsoft had broken an agreement to make a big breakthrough in artificial intelligence “freely available to the public”. He said OpenAI was working on “proprietary technology to maximise profits for literally the largest company in the world”.