By Reuters | Updated: 10 January, 2025
Musk, who owns AI startup xAI, is suing OpenAI in courts in an effort to block OpenAI’s conversion, which it had argued as a departure of the mission he funded the company on. The court is likely to rule on the preliminary injunction Musk’s lawyers had applied for later this month.
Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings weighed in on the case by sending the court an amicus brief on Dec. 29, stating she is currently reviewing OpenAI’s proposed changes.
“That Delaware is on record asserting that it is closely monitoring the situation should definitely undercut a judge’s willingness to enjoin a transaction Musk and Encode characterize as dangerous, unwise, or the product of fiduciary violations,” Darryll Jones, Professor of Law at Florida A&M University wrote in a blog. Encode is an AI safety non-profit that joined Musk’s efforts to block OpenAI’s for-profit transition.
California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who also has jurisdiction, has not commented on the case, despite a letter from Meta urging him to block it.
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