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- Elon Musk is suing OpenAI over concerns that it's no longer fulfilling its original mission.
- It's a legal battle that has started to split Silicon Valley on moral grounds.
- OpenAI's closed-source approach to AI is creating opposing sides.
Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman's OpenAI hasn't just triggered a battle between two former cofounders of a nonprofit now being derided as a "de-facto subsidiary" of Microsoft.
It has reignited the savior complex of Silicon Valley's biggest personalities too.