Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI and its co-founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, which claimed the technology's founders had betrayed the startup's founding mission.
In February, Musk, 52, accused the artificial intelligence company in a California court of violating its commitment to creating artificial intelligence that benefits humanity and turning it into a for-profit company backed by Microsoft.
Musk's lawyers asked that the lawsuit be dropped without giving a reason for the action, according to a document filed in San Francisco Superior Court. cnn reported.
The shocking move came ahead of a hearing by a Superior Court judge on OpenAI's attempt to dismiss the lawsuit on Wednesday.
However, Musk dismissed his case without prejudice, meaning he could refile it at another time.
The lawsuit marked the culmination of Musk's long-standing opposition to OpenAI, a startup he co-founded in 2015 but abandoned in 2018.
In the lawsuit, Musk asked a judge to force OpenAI to make its research and technology available to the public and to prevent the startup from using its assets, including GPT-4, for the financial benefit of Microsoft and others.
OpenAI had argued in a court filing that the lawsuit was based on inconsistent claims, describing it as a contrived attempt by Musk to promote his own interests in AI.
“Seeing the remarkable technological advances OpenAI has made, Musk now wants that success for himself,” OpenAI's lawyers said.
Musk, in his lawsuit filed in April, argued that OpenAI was trying to “present arguments that are based on disputed facts” that are beyond the scope of the lawsuit.
Musk created his own artificial intelligence startup, xAI, last July, which raised $6 billion in series B funding in May to reach a post-money valuation of $24 billion.
