OpenAI attorneys call for Elon Musk to be enjoined from ‘further unlawful and unfair action’

The dramatic go well with between OpenAI and its estranged co-founder, billionaire Elon Musk, reveals no signal of letting up.

In a filing Wednesday, attorneys for OpenAI and the opposite defendants within the case, together with CEO Sam Altman, referred to as for Musk to be enjoined from “additional illegal and unfair motion” and “held chargeable for the injury he has already induced” to the defendants.

“OpenAI is resilient,” reads the submitting. “However Musk’s actions have taken a toll. Ought to his marketing campaign persist, larger hurt is threatened — to OpenAI’s capability to manipulate in service of its mission, to the relationships which are important to furthering that mission, and to the general public curiosity […] Musk’s continued assaults on OpenAI, culminating most lately within the pretend takeover bid designed to disrupt OpenAI’s future, should stop.”

Attorneys for Musk didn’t instantly reply to TechCrunch’s request for remark.

Musk’s go well with towards OpenAI accuses the startup of abandoning its nonprofit mission to make sure its AI analysis advantages all humanity. OpenAI was based as a nonprofit in 2015, however transformed to a “capped-profit” construction in 2019, and now seeks to restructure as soon as extra right into a public profit company.

Musk had sought a preliminary injunction to halt OpenAI’s transition to a for-profit. In March, a federal decide denied the request — however permitted the case to go to a jury trial in spring 2026.

Musk, as soon as a key supporter of OpenAI, is now maybe its greatest adversary. The stakes are excessive for OpenAI, which reportedly wants to finish its for-profit conversion by 2025 or relinquish some of the capital it has raised in current months.

A bunch of organizations, together with nonprofits and labor teams just like the California Teamsters, petitioned California Lawyer Basic Rob Bonta this week to cease OpenAI from changing into a for-profit entity, claiming that the corporate “failed to guard its charitable belongings” and is actively “subverting its charitable mission to advance secure synthetic intelligence.”

Encode, the nonprofit group that co-sponsored California’s ill-fated SB 1047 AI security laws, voiced similar concerns in an amicus brief filed in December.

OpenAI has stated that its conversion would preserve its nonprofit arm and infuse it with assets to be spent on “charitable initiatives” in sectors comparable to well being care, training, and science.