New filings in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI show two top tech investors back his allegation that the ChatGPT developer sought to unfairly quash competition.

Once friends and business partners, now rivals, Elon Musk and Sam Altman are dueling it out in a California Federal courtroom. Their personal animus may have impacts on the course of generative AI model development,

Encode, a nonprofit organization that co-sponsored California’s failed SB 1047 AI safety legislation, is joining forces with Elon Musk to oppose OpenAI’s plan to repivot as a fully for-profit company.

Geoffrey Hinton, the prominent data scientist known as the “Godfather of artificial intelligence,” is backing Elon Musk in his legal attempt to block OpenAI from switching to a for-profit company. Hinton,

Hinton has also criticised OpenAI cofounder Sam Altman, saying he is “much less concerned with safety than with profits,” and calling this, “unfortunate”