Musk vs. OpenAI: Battle for AI's Future

0:00It's April 8th. Welcome to Canada News Today, powered by AI, I'm Cori with the story. Elon Musk just dropped a big move in his lawsuit against OpenAI, pushing to boot CEO Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman from their spots. He's aiming to reverse the company's shift to a four-profit setup and bring it back to its nonprofit roots as a research lab. In his Tuesday core filing, Musk wants any winnings from the upcoming jury trial funneled straight to OpenAI's charitable side. He's suing OpenAI and Microsoft too, saying they ditched the original mission after taking billions from the software giant. OpenAI fired back on social media, calling it a harassment play fueled by ego and jealousy to slow down arrival. Musk, who co-founded the outfit back in 2015, left the board in 2018 and now runs his own AI challenger, XAI. This filing hit right after OpenAI's chief strategy officer called on California and Delaware Attorney's General to probe Musk for anti-competitive.

1:02Moves blocking their restructure. Last year, they shot down his unsolicited $97.4 billion bid to buy the nonprofit assets. With the trial kicking off later this month in Oakland Federal Court, this feud between old partners shows no signs of cooling as both sides dig in on, the future of AI.