OpenAI executive says Elon Musk regrets not being a part of their company

Musk alleged that their focus on maximizing profits for Microsoft, rather than benefiting humanity, goes against the original mission of OpenAI. And now, an OpenAI executive reportedly said that Musk is regretting not being a part of OpenAI and has therefore, taken legal action against the company.

OpenAI executive says Musk regrets leaving OpenAI

According to a report in The Verge, an OpenAI executive believes that Musk sued OpenAI as he regrets not being a part of the company anymore.

The company’s chief strategy officer, Jason Kwon, said in a memo sent to staff that Musk “regrets not being involved with the company today.”

Musk had sued OpenAI on Thursday in a lawsuit filed with the San Francisco court. The lawsuit talked about Musk’s long-held concern that OpenAI’s collaboration with Microsoft undermines the company’s initial commitment to developing public and open-source artificial general intelligence.

In his legal action, Musk called for OpenAI, its president Gregory Brockman, CEO Sam Altman, and Microsoft to be prevented from profiting from the technology related to artificial general intelligence.

Musk has been accusing Microsoft of turning OpenAI into a “for profit company” for a long time.

Last year, Musk said in a tweet that OpenAI was no longer what he intended it to be and had turned into a ‘maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft’.

“OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all,” he wrote.