OpenAI responded to Elon Musk's lawsuit against ChatGPT last week, accusing the firm of pursuing profit and deviating from its original, charitable objective. On Tuesday night, OpenAI disclosed many of Musk's emails from the company's early days, which appear to show Musk recognizing that OpenAI needed a lot of money to pay the tremendous computer capacity required to fuel its AI goals.

Musk argues in the emails, portions of which have been redacted, that raising finance alone would give the firm little chance of establishing a viable generative AI platform, and that the company needs to find other kinds of revenue to exist.

In an email to CEO Sam Altman on November 22, 2015, Musk, an OpenAI co-founder, stated that the business needs to raise considerably more than $100 million to "avoid sounding hopeless." Musk proposed a $1 billion financing pledge and offered to reimburse whatever was not raised.

In a blog post Tuesday night, OpenAI stated that Musk never followed through on his pledge, pledging only $45 million in financing for OpenAI while other contributors collected $90 million. Musk's lawyers declined to comment on OpenAI's assertions.

Musk informed business leaders in an email dated February 1, 2018, that the only way for OpenAI to move ahead was for Tesla, his electric vehicle firm, to purchase it. The firm declined, and Musk departed OpenAI later that year.

In December 2018, Musk contacted Altman and other officials, stating that OpenAI will be irrelevant "without a dramatic change in execution and resources."

"This takes billions a year right away or you forget it," Musk said in an email. "I really hope I'm wrong."

OpenAI executives agreed. In 2019, they established OpenAI LP, a for-profit organization operating within the bigger company's framework. That for-profit firm grew OpenAI from practically nothing to a $90 billion value in only a few years, and Altman is widely regarded as the brain behind that strategy and the key to the company's success.

Microsoft has now invested $13 billion in a strong cooperation with OpenAI.

Musk's case, launched last week in California state court, claimed that the firm and its cooperation with Microsoft breached OpenAI's founding charter, which constituted a breach of contract. Musk is requesting a jury trial and that the firm, Altman, and co-founder Greg Brockman repay the profits earned from the business.

OpenAI was formed to protect mankind from what the creators saw as a severe threat presented by artificial generative intelligence, or AGI. The corporation established a board of overseers to assess whatever product it generated, and its product code was made public.

The corporation stated in its blog post that it has not deviated from its objective and that it intends to deny all of Musk's assertions.