Lawsuit says Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google made illegal agreement on AI slowdown
The coordination largely took place on September 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements
A lawsuit has been filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google engaged in an illegal agreement to slow down their respective AI development. The plaintiffs argue that this coordination violates antitrust laws and reduces the value for consumers who pay for AI subscriptions.
The lawsuit claims that the agreement was formed on September 12, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk, and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis each publicly responded to Amodei's proposals, agreeing to the slowdown.
The plaintiffs are seeking to represent a nationwide class of paid subscribers to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini.
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