Updated: December 1, 2024 10:54 IST 3 min read X owner Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. (File photo) Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s lawyers have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI and Microsoft in an attempt to stop them and other defendants named in the filing from engaging in alleged anti-competitive behaviour. Filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on Friday, November 29, the motion for an injunction seeks to halt alleged illicit activities by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, president Greg Brockman, LinkedIn co-founder and former OpenAI board member Reid Hoffman, and former OpenAI board member and Microsoft VP Dee Templeton. In the motion for an injunction, Musk’s lawyers alleged that OpenAI discouraged investors from funding its rivals such as the Tesla CEO’s AI company called xAI. “Musk has verified that at least one major investor in OpenAI’s October funding round has subsequently declined to invest in xAI,” the document read. Advertisement It also alleges that the sharing of proprietary information and resources between OpenAI and its biggest investor, Microsoft, is illegal and amounts to “self-dealing,” which is harming marketplace competition. Additionally, the motion accuses the defendants of having OpenAI throw business to organisations in which they have “material financial interests”. It notes, for example, that OpenAI chose Stripe as its payment processor to benefit Altman who has stakes in the platform. Also Read