Elon Musk has sued OpenAI leaders, accusing them of manipulating him into funding a nonprofit that later became a for-profit entity. The lawsuit questions the company's shift from its original open-source, ethical AI goals.

OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit aiming to build ethical, open-source artificial general intelligence. Years later, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit accusing CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI president Greg Brockman, and Microsoft of manipulating him into donating to a public-interest organisation which later created a for-profit subsidiary.