Judge rejected Musk’s request to block Openai’s for-Profit Plan

In November, Elon Musk Asked a federal court To block Openai’s plan to convert a non-profit company to a non-profit company.

On Tuesday, a federal judge in San Francisco refused to request Mr. Musk’s request, called it “extraordinary”. But the court allowed Mr. Musk to proceed last year with other aspects of the case filed against Openai and its chief executive, Sam Altman.

In 2015, Mr. Musk helped to create Openai as a non -profit organization with Mr. Altman and others. In 2018, Mr. Musk left the organization after the company’s control fight. Mr. Altman then attached Openi to a beneficial company to raise billions of dollars required to manufacture artificial intelligence technologies.

But non -profit maintained the company’s control. Last year, Mr. Altman and his company began working on a plan to transfer the company from non-profit to OpenAII investors as a beneficial company.

Soon after, Mr. Musk filed a case against Openai and Mr. Altman, claiming that he had dissolved the company’s founding contract by putting the public well further commercial interests.

Later, Mr. Musk expanded the complaint that claims were included that Openai had asked investors not to agree to invest in rival companies, including Mr. Musk’s new Artificial Intelligence Company, XAI.

“We welcome the court’s decision,” Lindsay, a spokesman of OpenIAI, said in a statement. “Elon’s own email shows that he wanted to merge a profit-profit Openai in Tesla. This would have been great for their personal advantage, but not for our mission or American interests. ,

Earlier this year, Mr. Musk and a union of investors extended their long fights with Mr. Altman, offering to buy non -profitable assets, which controls openai for more than $ 97 billion. The Board of Directors of Openai later rejected the bid.

But the bid can still complicate Mr. Altman’s efforts to separate the company from the non -profit board and increase the billions of dollars that OpenIA requires the creation of new technologies.

“We are happy that the court has offered a quick test on the main claims running the case, which presents ‘necessary’ issues in the public interest,” Mark Tobaroff, a lawyer representing Mr. Musk, said in a statement to the New York Times.

(New York Times sued Openai and his partner, Microsoft, accusing them of copyright violations about the news material related to the AI ​​system. Openai and Microsoft denied those claims.)