The battle around AI between Elon Musk and Openai takes a new turn. Explosive internal emails unveiled by OPENAI reveal an attempt to take power led by the billionaire in 2017. At the heart of this conflict: the future of artificial intelligence and the model of governance that accompanies it.
Elon Musk accused of wanting to control OPENAI AI since 2017
Openai no longer chews his words. According to Revelations of the company IAElon Musk would have done everything to control the AI developed by the organization he co -founded.
In a counter-plain Recent, Musk is even the subject of several accusations:
- harassment ;
- attempted hostile takeover;
- Fictive OPA attempt at $ 97 billion.
Internal emails show that Musk proposed in 2017 a structure giving it “initial control” of the board of directors, in exchange for investments. He would have even demanded:
- become CEO;
- Incorporate a screen company, Open Artificial Intelligence Technologies, to move the intellectual property of Openai.
Faced with this refusal, Musk would have cut funding and tried to join Openai in Tesla, evoking the urgency of countering Google. This is one of the main rivals of the company on the AI market.
The Openai team would have rejected this idea, fearing a “Dictatorship of the AI”. Finally, Musk left the organization in 2018 before returning to the charge in 2024 with a complaint in justice.
A war of influence will soon see the light of day!
Behind this quarrel hides a struggle for the dominant model of AI. Today, Openai is evolving towards a hybrid status of a capped lucrative company. Now founder of Xai, Musk accuses him of having betrayed his original mission.
To defend himself, Openai publishes a new series of messages stressing that Musk himself was pushing for this economic transition. “Elon's emails clearly demonstrate it”says the start-up. With a valuation at 300 billion dollars, Openai intends to build the best equipped non -profit association that the world has ever known.
There Battle around AI So just begins. The trial will be held in the spring of 2026.
The rivalry between Musk and Openai exceeds in any case the simple internal quarrels. It illustrates the growing tension between IA innovation and economic control. A crucial dynamic to monitor in the tech universe!
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