Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla has said that Elon Musk suing OpenAI feels like a case of sour grapes because the Tesla billionaire did not get into the AI game early enough.
Elon Musk was OpenAI’s largest donor when it was still a non-profit, while Khosla was the first venture capitalist to invest in the ChatGPT-creator when the company switched from a non-profit to a private enterprise in 2019.
Musk is now suing OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over what he says is a betrayal of the ChatGPT maker's founding aims of benefiting humanity rather than pursuing profits.
The lawsuit filed late on Thursday in California Superior Court in San Francisco is a culmination of Musk's long-simmering opposition to the startup he co-founded. OpenAI has since become the face of generative AI, partly due to billions of dollars in funding from Microsoft. Musk went on to found his own artificial intelligence startup, xAI, launched last July.
With @elonmusk , feels like a bit of sour grapes in suing @OpenAI , not getting in early enough, not staying committed and now a rival effort. Like they say if you can't innovate, litigate and that's what we have here. Elon of old would would be building with us to hit the same…— Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) March 2, 2024
In a post shared Sunday, Indian-American billionaire Vinod Khosla slammed Musk over the lawsuit.
“With Elon Musk, feels like a bit of sour grapes in suing OpenAI, not getting in early enough, not staying committed and now a rival effort. Like they say if you can't innovate, litigate and that's what we have here. Elon of old would would be building with us to hit the same goal,” he posted on X, the social media platform that Musk owns.
X users were eager to point out that Musk was one of the earliest investors in OpenAI, so Khosla’s argument about him “not getting in early enough” did not hold water.
“Didn’t he provide the first $100m?” asked one commenter. “Not getting in early enough?! He was a founder!” another wrote.
Musk's lawsuit alleges a breach of contract, saying Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman originally approached him to make an open source, non-profit company, but the startup established in 2015 is now focused on making money.
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