OpenAI hits back at Elon Musk’s lawsuit, says ‘sad it’s come to this’

OpenAI responded to a lawsuit filed against it by Elon Musk in a blog post Tuesday — saying he signed off on the company’s decision to become a for-profit entity and that he insisted it needed to raise “billions” of dollars to be relevant compared with Google.

Musk filed the lawsuit last week against OpenAI, Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and President Greg Brockman, alleging the startup had strayed from its mission to build responsible AI and that it had become beholden to Microsoft Corp., its largest investor. In the post, OpenAI said that Musk was lashing out after trying and failing to make the company part of Tesla Inc.