Elon Musk enjoys being at the center of the universe. If generative AI is going to be as transformational as Silicon Valley believes, he cannot lose. Especially not to a company he helped start. To that end,

Indeed, Musk suggested that synthetic data — data generated by AI models themselves — is the path forward. “The only way to supplement [real-world data] is with synthetic data, where the AI creates [training data],” he said. “With synthetic data … [AI] will sort of grade itself and go through this process of self-learning.”

Musk dropped the lawsuit but filed another one against Altman and OpenAI, this time elevating his accusations to claim OpenAI worked with Microsoft, an investor, to create a monopoly. The billionaire also alleged the company violated its founding claim as a nonprofit by pursuing profit. OpenAI has denied the allegations.

Two of the most powerful forces in the AI industry are set to collide this year: Elon Musk and OpenAI's Sam Altman. Here's what you need to know.

“We’ve now exhausted basically the cumulative sum of human knowledge …. in AI training,” Musk said during a live-streamed conversation with Stagwell chairman Mark Penn streamed on X late Wednesday. “That happened basically last year.”

A lawyer for Elon Musk has called on the California and Delaware attorneys-general to force OpenAI to auction off a large stake in its business, intensifying a bitter fight with the company’s chief executive Sam Altman.

Elon Musk and his attorneys have asked judges in the states of California and Delaware to cause an auction that would force OpenAI to sell off a portion of its business, the Financial Times reported.