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.

The youth advocacy group Encode is supporting Musk's lawsuit seeking a preliminary injunction that would stop OpenAI from becoming fully for-profit.

Elon Musk has a new supporter in his legal fight against OpenAI: AI "godfather" Geoffrey Hinton. "OpenAI was founded as an explicitly safety-focused non-profit and made a variety of safety related promises in its charter,

In its brief, Encode argues that OpenAI’s restructuring would undermine its longheld commitment to prioritize public safety when developing advanced AI systems. It adds that OpenAI’s status as a nonprofit provides “essential governance guardrails” that would effectively be eliminated if the company were to transition to a for-profit entity.

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,