Irell & Manella filed a breach-of-contract suit on behalf of Elon Musk, alleging that OpenAI and its co-founders, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, violated the company’s founding agreement by abrogating away from the initial purpose of creating a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company to “benefit humanity.”

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