Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla got into a public spat over X on Sunday, with the billionaire violating his original AI contract agreement. has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman for allegedly
When Khosla accused the X owner of committing “sour grapes” by suing OpenAI, the billionaire replied that the Indian-origin investor had no knowledge of the issue.
“In the case of @elonmusk, it feels like suing @OpenAI is a bit of sour grapes. They didn’t get on board early enough, didn’t stay committed enough, and now it’s a rival effort,” Khosla said. posted on X.
“People often say if you can’t innovate, sue, and that’s what we’re doing here. Elon of old would have been trying to achieve the same goal with us.”
Musk replied, “Vinod has no idea what you’re talking about here.”
Khosla said Musk would have worked with OpenAI to achieve common AI goals.
Musk was a former director of OpenAI until 2018, while Khosla invested about $50 million in OpenAI in 2019.
Khosla went on to attack Musk, saying the billionaire “has to act early when the going gets tough, provide early relief, and make significant investments to sustain the mission to benefit society.” We needed funding.”
Musk’s lawsuit, filed in a San Francisco court, centers on OpenAI’s latest natural language model, called GPT-4.
Musk said OpenAI and Microsoft (which has poured billions of dollars into the Sam Altman-run company) agreed that its artificial general intelligence (AGI) capabilities “remain non-commercial and dedicated to humanity.” Despite this, the company claimed that it had “improperly granted a license for GPT-4.”
“These lawsuits are a significant distraction from AGI and the goal of realizing its benefits,” Khosla said.
“But despite all these hurdles, especially considering this week, Sam, Greg, and the team have brought a better product to market faster than anyone else in the AI space.”
“Despite the unfounded accusations being made regarding @OpenAI, we were our first venture check-in and at no time did we feel misled by Sam or the company,” he added.