Early OpenAI investor Elon Musk now claims the OpenAI has become a “market-paralyzing gorgon" in a new court filing.

Dozens of pages of correspondence between Elon Musk, Sam Altman and other OpenAI founders show how the conflict over control of the company is years old.

After joining with Mr. Musk to create OpenAI in 2015 and pledging to carefully develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity, the suit claimed, Mr. Altman and Mr. Brockman abandoned this mission by entering its multibillion-dollar partnership with Microsoft.

But Elon Musk’s second lawsuit against OpenAI, to whom he made charitable donations amounting in total to more than $50 million, may be the least of its immediate concerns. There is one authority that still has greater resources at its fingertips than the man tipped to be the world’s first trillionaire — the government.

Elon Musk has filed an amended complaint against OpenAI, accusing the company — and its close partner, Microsoft — of anticompetitive dealings.

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI amended to add Microsoft and monopoly accusation. The latest amendment, filed this week, claims that Microsoft and OpenAI are using monopolist