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埃隆·马斯克怼OpenAI不是一次两次了，这次直接搞个大事，把OpenAI告上了美国旧金山高等法院。
3月1日消息显示，马斯克指控OpenAI及其首席执行官山姆·奥特曼违反了成立时签订的协议，即为了人类的利益而不是利润开发技术。诉求是要求法院发布禁令，禁止OpenAI、微软从该公司的通用人工智能（AGI）技术中获利。
马斯克再撕OpenAI的“论点”还是人工智能风险，把“为人类福祉考虑”再次抛向公众舆论。
一家商业公司的领袖会如此为人类利益考虑？When the public was confused, OpenAI updated its blog saying, “We intend to take action to dismiss all the allegations of Elon.” It also released an email exchange between Musk and the founding members of OpenAI, proving that he had wanted to merge it with Tesla, orHolding OpenAI.双方就此产生分歧，埃隆·马斯克离开OpenAI。
“钢铁人”诉AI巨擘翻出了“权力的游戏”老黄历，而双方纠缠的背后还有关于AI竞争的未来。
01Musk raising the banner of “human welfare” for OpenAI
“微软”、“闭源”是马斯克诉状中的关键词，也成为他指控OpenAI违背“为全人类福祉而非利润来开发人工智能技术”初衷的呈证。
Musk said in the lawsuit that the relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft in recent years has seriously deviated from the organization’s original intention of developing public open source AGI (General Artificial Intelligence). OpenAI has transformed into the de facto closed source of Microsoft, the world’s largest technology company.company.
马斯克还举证，2023年3月发布的GPT-4与以前的版本相比，至今仍是一个闭源模型，但封闭的目的在于商业考量而非人类利益。
Whether GPT-4 has reached the AGI threshold will be the key to this lawsuit.In addition to GPT-4, Musk also wrote in the complaint, “It is reported that OpenAI is currently developing a model called Q*, which is more likely to be AGI.”
“Q*” was first mentioned in the incident of OpenAI CEO Ultraman Sam’s “demolished” in November last year.
On November 23, Reuters quoted sources as saying that four days before Ultraman was kicked out of the company, several researchers wrote to the board of directors warning that there was a powerful artificial intelligence discovery within OpenAI that could threatenHuman.Later, people familiar with the matter said that OpenAI admitted in an internal letter to employees that there was a project called Q*, and some people believed that Q* might be a breakthrough for the company to explore general artificial intelligence (AGI).
In this regard, Q* is circulating among the industry as the description of “OpenAI Secret Project”, and the outside world regards it as the AGI technology being developed by OpenAI.
What’s more coincidental is that after Musk sued OpenAI, a 53-page PDF document about OpenAI’s “AGI will be realized in 2027” was widely spread to the Internet. This document also mentioned the mysterious Q* and called its next one.The stage “initially it was GPT-6 but it has been renamed GPT-7”, and it also said that it was “originally planned to be released in 2026.”
However, netizens found that this PDF that was revealed at the right time to be aware of the technology giant comes from an account X registered in July 2023. The identity of the publisher @vancouver1717 is unknown, and he has only posted two tweets.Therefore, netizens who support OpenAI have doubts about the authenticity of this PDF.
闭源的GPT-4，神秘的Q*，加上最大的投资获利方微软，一起构成了马斯克指控OpenAI不为人类福祉考虑的呈堂证供。
Ultraman tweets after Musk sues
After Musk sued, OpenAI CEO Ultraman Sam tweeted on X, “The hurricane is getting faster and faster, but the eyes of the wind are completely calm”, which seems to reveal his peaceful mentality in dealing with this lawsuit.
Perhaps, Sam and OpenAI’s accusations against Musk are no longer surprising.
Since the end of 2022, after OpenAI’s ChatGPT set off a storm of natural language models around the world, Musk, the former founding member, has seemed extremely impatient. He has not only repeatedly accused OpenAI of not Open (open source) and ChatGPT for being “unsafe” in public.”，也将矛头指向了OpenAI的第一大投资人微软。
去年4月，马斯克指控微软非法使用Twitter数据进行人工智能训练，并表示“现在是起诉时间”。在收购Twitter并为该社交平台更名X后，马斯克对X的API进行了一系列的调整，以防止其他AI公司调用数据。而微软旗下的社交媒体广告管理服务Smart Campaigns则宣布，不再支持X。
马斯克与OpenAI的恩怨从2015年开始，直到OpenAI彻底红火后爆发。此次的起诉，从诉由看也是旧账新算。不过这一次，OpenAI似乎不打算沉默了。
02OpenAI posted an email and revealed Musk’s “selfishness”
On March 5, OpenAI updated its official blog with the title of relationship with Elon Musk, reiterating its mission of “ensure that AGI benefits all mankind”, and clearly stated that “we intend to take action to dismiss all of Elon’s allegations.”
What’s even more amazing is that while describing Musk’s entanglement with OpenAI over the years, the blog released emails from both sides to prove that Musk’s “abbreviation” of OpenAI – a merger with Tesla, otherwise he would hold OpenAI.
In the external version founded by OpenAI, Musk, as a start-up, planned to donate $1 billion to OpenAI in 2015 to support the organization in developing artificial intelligence with non-profit entities, and after donating $100 million, he became “unconsistent”.斯克离开，OpenAI在随后转为部分主体营利的结构，也才有了微软的投资入局。
而OpenAI在3月5日更新的博客展示了更多的细节，这与外界的版本产生了出入。
博文披露，作为非营利组织时，OpenAI从马斯克那其实筹集了不到4500万美元，而从其他捐助者那里筹集了9000多万美元。And, at the end of 2015, when Greg and Sam founded OpenAI, the initial plan was only $100 million, but Musk proposed “need a much larger number than $100 million,” and “I think we should say, we将从10亿美元的融资承诺开始……我将支付其他人没有提供的资金。”
In early 2017, as the team discovered that building AGI required a lot of computing power, OpenAI realized that it needed billions of dollars a year, which was far from what a nonprofit could raise, forcing Musk, to include的OpenAI初创者开始讨论以营利为目的的结构。
In the process, “Elon wants us to merge with Tesla or he wants to have full control of us.” OpenAI said in a blog that in 2017, when deciding to create a for-profit entity, “Elon wants to acquire a majority stake, preliminaryControlling the board and serving as CEO. During these discussions, he withheld funds. “There has since been no agreement on the for-profit terms,” because we feel that any individual has absolute control over OpenAI is against the company’s mission.”
马斯克曾建议OpenAI依附特斯拉获得资金
而在这之后，马斯克建议将OpenAI并入特斯拉。“2018年2月初，埃隆给我们转发了一封电子邮件，建议OpenAI应该‘把特斯拉当作它的摇钱树’，并评论说，‘完全正确……特斯拉是唯一一条有希望与谷歌匹敌的道路。’即便如此，与谷歌抗衡的可能性也很小，但至少不是零了。”
But afterward, Musk chose to leave OpenAI, thinking it had a success rate of 0. He planned to build a company within Tesla that competes with AGI and said when he left at the end of February 2018 that the support team was looking for their own path to raise the number of dollars.Billion dollars.可到了2018年12月，马斯克发邮件称，“即使筹集到数亿美元也不够。这需要每年数十亿美元，否则算了。”双方的合作彻底告吹。
而对于马斯克在起诉中指控的“闭源”问题，OpenAI在博客中称，马斯克是知道AGI并不着急开源的。The blog posts an email from OpenAI scientists Ilya and Musk, “As we get closer to building AI, it makes sense to start being less open. Open AI means everyone should benefit from the results of AI，但不分享科学是完全可以的……埃隆回答说:’是的’。”
OpenAI expressed regret at the end of the post, “It all happened to people we deeply admire – he inspired us to pursue higher goals and then told us that we would fail, creating a competitor when we were in the absence of him.下开始朝着OpenAI的使命取得有意义的进展时，他起诉了我们。”
03Musk’s artificial intelligence is not effective
The blog post taken by OpenAI with an email screenshot explains Musk’s “ambitions” towards OpenAI in the past, and also makes the “close-source” problem it accused of is untenable.
This “Game of Thrones” that once happened in OpenAI’s early days may be one of the reasons why Musk is resentful of this artificial intelligence giant.When time comes to an era of natural language models explosion, Musk, who is determined to build Tesla into an intelligent robot company, must face competition in the field of artificial intelligence after missing OpenAI.
After signing a joint letter to stop training higher-level GPTs last year, Musk said he would develop a safe and beneficial generative dialogue product TruthGPT.
In November last year, Musk’s company xAI launched the chat robot product Grok, which directly competes with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.Although Musk personally came to “advertise” Grok on social platforms, Grok’s popularity has been completely different from ChatGPT in the past few years.
Comparison of Grok and ChatGPT Google Search Index
Now, in the market for artificial intelligence big models, not only Google and OpenAI have been included, but also Anthropic, the creator of Claude3, and xAI has faced greater competitive pressure.
Musk also intends to combine xAI with his existing business.On xAI official website, the company explicitly will work closely with X and Tesla.It should be noted that the xAI of this Musk-controlled company has no equity relationship with X and Tesla.
Tesla shareholders seem to be unprepared for the company’s positioning toward smart robots.Shareholders said that unless Musk has at least 25% of Tesla’s voting rights, he has no right to develop the automaker into a leader in artificial intelligence and robotics.
Musk’s path to pursuing artificial intelligence was not so smooth, and the anxious “bullet” finally shot towards himself in 2015.
According to CNBC, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon responded to Musk’s lawsuit by sending a memo to his current staff. “We believe that the reason behind the lawsuit may be that Elon regrets not continuing to participate in the company’s development. Seeing Elon against him for oneIt is a very disappointing to help the company founded to take such action, especially given that he has worked closely with those of you who are still fighting for this mission.”
However, Musk’s prosecution may have other effects.Regarding the open source or not of GPT-4 and its subsequent versions and more disclosures of Q*, well-known AI blogger Rowan Cheung believes that the lawsuit may help solve these mysteries.
