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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Nick Robins-Early

OpenAI calls Elon Musk’s lawsuit ‘frivolous’ and ‘incoherent’ in legal filing

Elon Musk with an OpenAi logo and phone superimposed.
Elon Musk, above, and Sam Altman launched OpenAI together in 2015, but Musk left three years later after disputes about direction of company. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

OpenAI denounced Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the company in a legal filing on Monday, describing the Tesla CEO’s claims as “frivolous” and intended only “to advance his commercial interests”.

The filing, a response to Musk suing OpenAI earlier this month over allegations that it abandoned its pledge to help humanity, rejects many of the core assertions in Musk’s suit. The company denies that it ever broke what Musk calls its “Founding Agreement”, stating that no such contract ever existed.

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