Meta, AI entrepreneurs, academics, and other charities and activists are criticizing the startup's plan to shed its ties to its nonprofit parent.

Musk, who has since launched a rival AI firm, has fired off angry posts about Altman on his social media platform, filed two lawsuits against the company for straying from its founding principles

Elon Musk and Sam Altman founded OpenAI in 2015 as a non-profit organization dedicated to developing safe artificial general intelligence. The goal was to advance AI for the benefit of humanity. In 2018,