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Cailianshe News, August 6 (Editor: Ma Lan)In June, Musk suddenly withdrew the lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman and remained silent on the reason for the withdrawal. Unexpectedly, on Monday, Musk restarted the legal battle and once again dragged OpenAI and Altman into the vortex of litigation.

The content of the new lawsuit is very similar to the previous one, accusing OpenAI CEO Altman of betraying his co-founder Musk and turning OpenAI from a non-profit company into a commercial enterprise.

Musk claimed in the new lawsuit that Altman and another OpenAI co-founder, Greg Brockman, violated the founding agreement to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. By working with Microsoft, Altman established a network of opaque affiliates, engaged in self-dealing, controlled the OpenAI board of directors, and systematically drained the nonprofit organization of valuable technology and personnel.

According to Musk's lawyer Marc Toberoff, the new lawsuit is very different from the previous case. In the latest allegations, Musk asked the defendants to be held accountable for their false statements and demanded large-scale recovery of their ill-gotten gains.

The new indictment also alleges that OpenAI violated federal racketeering laws, which Toberoff said would be more powerful. In addition, Altman and other defendants were accused of committing multiple "wire fraud" by accepting financial support from Musk.

Neither side gives in

Musk and Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but Musk left OpenAI a few years later due to internal power struggles. After OpenAI became a leader in artificial intelligence because of its Chatgpt product, Musk made his feud with Altman public, and the lawsuit is one of the evidences of the tension between the two sides.

The lawsuit states that Musk used his fame to develop OpenAI, invested a lot of time and tens of millions of dollars, and helped the company recruit the world's top artificial intelligence scientists, but in the end he was betrayed by Altman and his partners in a plot comparable to Shakespeare's drama.

But OpenAI and Altman have previously responded that Musk's accusation was a slander and a defamation out of resentment and jealousy.

In a blog post in March this year, several OpenAI executives provided email records and pointed out that Musk had always supported OpenAI's transition to a for-profit business, and they regretted Musk's "degenerate" behavior.

An OpenAI spokesperson said of the latest lawsuit that Musk had withdrawn one lawsuit, but that his previous emails to OpenAI executives would remain.

At the same time, Musk is running his own artificial intelligence company, working to create a chatbot similar to ChatGPT. However, the development of Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has not been as smooth as expected, and it has been criticized by the public for spreading false information.

On Monday, five state secretaries urged Musk to debug a chatbot used on the X platform that was promoting false information related to the 2024 U.S. election.