Ex-Openai staff are increasing Musk's case in opposition to transferring to the non-profit unit

Sam Altman, left and Elon Musk.

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A group of 12 ex-Openai employees to support Elon Musk's lawsuit against the startup for artificial intelligence asked the permission of a court on Friday to exchange their concerns about the conversion of the company into a non-profit company.

Between 2018 and 2024, the individuals worked together at Openaai, which “covers the formative years of the organization through their recent development,” the request says. The letter was submitted to a district court in California by Lawrence Lessig, who represents the group.

The purpose of the request is to support Musk's arguments in his case against Openai and his efforts to support the AI ​​research project, which Musk founded in 2015 as a non-profit organization, to transform into a profit-oriented unit.

“If the Openai -Community organization agreed to change the Openai company structure that took away its controlling role, this would fundamentally violate its mission,” the submissions say.

Openaai, led by CEO Sam Altman, has commercialized products in recent years, especially its viral chatt-chatbot, which was introduced at the end of 2022. The company is still monitored by a non-profit parent and, in its goal, has, in its goal, to a striking, existing musk start that is a nutmeg's start of a nutmeg, to start a musk start in one.

A group run by Muschus offered Openai for $ 97.4 billion in February, an offer that was quickly rejected. Last month Openaai concluded one from Softbank with an evaluation of 300 billion US dollars, the largest private technology finance, a round of financing of $ 40 billion.

The hybrid structure of Openaai comprises a Caped Profit partnership founded in 2019. The original non -profit organization is the controlling shareholder and would be expressed as an independent company if the company is restructured. The Venture supporters from Openai have received convertible notes that would turn into equity.

During the Friday letter, Lessig wrote that the conversion to a non -profit company would not only give up the original mission, but also the trust of employees, donors and other stakeholders who joined the organization and supported them “, based on their obligations.

The ex-staff mentioned in the letter are Steven Adler, Rosemary Campbell, Neil Chowdhury, Jacob Hilton, Daniel Kokotajlo, Gretchen Krueger, Todor Markov, Richard Ngo, Girish Sasty, William Saunders, Carrol Wainwight and Jeffrey Wu. Some have spoken about their experiences at Openaai in the past.

The submission states that the parties mentioned “also have a major interest in this legal dispute, since they answer fundamental questions about the mission and the organizational structure of Openai, which they designed during their employment”.

“Our board was very clear: Our non -profit organization is nowhere going on and our mission will remain the same,” an Openai spokesman told CNBC. “We transform our existing non-profit arm into a public performance company that is the same structure as other AI laboratories like Anthropic, in which some of these former employees now work and Xai.”

The case between Muschus and Openaai has pulled since numerous curves Tesla CEO initiated legal disputes at the beginning of last year and claimed that the company has given up its founding mission to develop artificial intelligence “for the benefit of humanity”. A Federal District Court last month blocked Musk's attempt to stop the transition from Openai to a profit -oriented company.

At the beginning of this week, Openai submitted a contrast to Musk and claimed that the richest person in the world had tried “every available tools to harm the company”. This lawsuit calls for a substitute for punishment by Musk's actions and an injunction to prevent it from further disturbing in his operations.

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