Obviously Elon is mostly doing this suit as a way to benefit Grok AI but honestly I don’t mind that; competitors are supposed to keep each other in check, and this is a good and proper way for companies to provide checks & balances to each others’ power and it’s one reason why monopolies are bad is the absence of competitor-enforced accountability.
Lawsuit: https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-revives-lawsuit...
https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-revives-lawsuit-against-sam-altman-openai-nyt-reports-2024-08-05/> how this isn't the case here.
Its not the case because they are doing the opposite of what you are suggesting. They are increasing the value of the asset that they own.
Sure, the asset itself is being diluted, but the individual parts that it owns are more valuable.
It is perfectly reasonable for a non profit to prefer to own 30% of a 100 billion dollar asset, lets say, compared to 100% of a 10 billion dollar asset.
The goal of the openAI non-profit is something something control the development of AI for the good of all humanity, then it seems that they explicitly shouldn't care about making $20 billion, and explicitly should care about maintaining control of openAI.
If you listen to their rhetoric, $20 billion is peanuts compared to the lightcone and the kardashev scale and whatever else.