Aug 5 (Reuters) - Elon Musk has revived a lawsuit

against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday,

saying that the firm put profits and commercial interests ahead

of the public good.

The new lawsuit is the latest attempt by Musk to oppose the

company he co-founded in 2015. He alleges that once OpenAI's

technology started to transform generative artificial

intelligence, Altman "flipped the narrative and proceeded to

cash in."

OpenAI and Musk did not immediately respond to Reuters

requests for comments.

The suit seeks a judicial determination that OpenAI's

license to Microsoft ( MSFT ) to use its AI models is null and

void. Musk also contends that the OpenAI's language models are

outside the scope of the company's partnership with Microsoft ( MSFT ).

OpenAI has a licensing partnership with Microsoft ( MSFT ), under

which the big tech giant invests billions of dollars into the

startup in exchange for using its large language models for its

computing services.

In June, Musk withdrew an earlier lawsuit against OpenAI and

Altman that had accused them of abandoning the startup's

original mission to develop artificial intelligence for the

benefit of humanity rather than for profit.

Attorneys for Musk had asked the California state court to

dismiss the suit, originally filed in February, without

providing a reason for the move.

In the case filed in February, Musk had said that OpenAI's

three founders had originally agreed to work on AI in a way that

would "benefit humanity."