Musk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models
Musk said xAI had partly distilled OpenAI models as the trial exposed emails and broader disputes over AI model copying and reverse-engineering.
- On Thursday, plaintiff Elon Musk admitted on the stand that his startup had "distilled" OpenAI's models. This revelation occurred during the ongoing legal battle Musk initiated against the company he co-founded in 2015.
- Musk alleges OpenAI was "stolen" from him and abandoned its nonprofit mission. He demands the company unwind its for-profit structure, remove Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman, and pay $150 billion in damages.
- Distillation involves training smaller models to mimic larger ones for speed and efficiency. Many open Chinese models used American-made AI models for this practice, which OpenAI recently accused DeepSeek of doing.
- The lawsuit aims to damage a competitor, potentially helping his Grok chatbot gain ground against ChatGPT and Claude. This trial illustrates the cutthroat nature of the industry as Musk seeks an edge.
- SpaceX provides momentum as the company develops its own advanced technology. Musk, who predicts AI will surpass human intelligence within five years, continues to finance his ambitions.
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Three days of cross-examination in Oakland produced a $130bn lawsuit’s most awkward admissions, including that xAI trains on OpenAI’s models. The judge, not the jury, will decide. Elon Musk took the stand in Oakland on Tuesday with a story he has been telling for two years. He had founded OpenAI in 2015, he said, to […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Elon Musk says OpenAI abandoned its mission to protect humanity. But is his own A.I. crusade against the “woke mind virus” any better? By Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff Few people are as bullish about the future of A.I. as Elon Musk. On Thursday, he took the stand for the third day in the opening of his bitter legal battle against OpenAI, a company he co-founded in 2015 with Sam Altman and others as a nonprofit committed to developing A.I. for …
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mnnofa.comMusk v. Altman week 1: Elon Musk says he was duped, warns AI could kill us all, and admits that xAI distills OpenAI’s models
Musk kept his cool, and OpenAI’s lawyer bulldozed him with piercing questions about his motivations for suing the company.
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