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Elon Musk’s lawyers on Tuesday moved to dismiss the billionaire’s lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, ending a months-long legal battle between the artificial intelligence startup’s co-founders. .

Musk — who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 — sued the company in March, accusing the Chat GPT maker of violating its original, Accused of abandoning non-profit mission. The lawsuit went to a jury trial and demanded that the company, Altman and co-founder and president Greg Brockman return any profits from the business.

But OpenAI quickly pushed back against Musk’s claims, calling them “contradictory” and “nonsense” and saying in a court filing that the case should be dismissed. The company also published a blog post containing several emails from Musk from the early days of OpenAI. The emails show that Musk acknowledged the company’s need to generate large sums of money to fund the computing resources it needs to fuel its AI ambitions, contrary to claims in his lawsuit that OpenAI was improper. was profiting from.

Musk’s lawyers did not give a reason for their request to drop the case in Tuesday’s filing. A hearing on OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the case was scheduled for Wednesday.

The move to drop the lawsuit also comes a day after Musk released a series of posts on his social media platform X criticizing OpenAI and its handling of user data, as Apple announced a partnership. announced that ChatGPT integrates with digital personal assistants. Siri for users on an opt-in basis.

If Apple integrates OpenAI into the OS (operating system). On the surface, then Apple devices would be banned in my companies. This is an unacceptable security breach,” Musk said in a post. (Apple said as part of its announcement that user queries sent to ChatGPT will not be stored by OpenAI.)

The Musk-Open AI legal battle represented diverging views on how the company that created ChatGPT — which has skyrocketed in value and become a leader in the fast-growing AI space that many consider See as the future of technology – must be managed.

Musk accused OpenAI of racing to develop powerful “artificial general intelligence” technology to “maximize profits.” OpenAI, meanwhile, accused Musk of being primarily jealous that he was no longer involved with the startup, after he unsuccessfully tried to convince his fellow co-founder to acquire Tesla in 2018. Dropped OpenAI.

But while OpenAI dismissed Musk’s claims as “fiction,” the billionaire isn’t the only person who has raised questions about OpenAI’s leadership and direction. The company faced a high-level leadership crisis last year that led to Altman being temporarily ousted from the company, apparently over concerns about the risks of artificial intelligence from several board members. After several days of uncertainty and the intervention of Microsoft, a major investor in OpenAI, Altman was reinstated to his position in what industry analysts say is a victory for those seeking to commercialize AI technology.

More recently, a number of high-profile OpenAI safety leaders have left the company, several publicly claiming that the company has prioritized introducing new safety products more quickly. Weeks later, the company said it had set up a new committee to make recommendations to the company’s board about safety and security.

This story has been updated with additional details and context.