Elon Musk
one Wall Street Journal A group of investors led by X owner Elon Musk made a proposal to buy a nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion, the report said. Musk said in a statement that the offer was to return Openai to open source, and the security-focused forces were once once it was it,” we added: “We will make sure that this happens, but Openai CEO Official Sam Altman seemed determined to make sure it didn’t happen.
The offer to buy OpenAi is the latest twist in the controversy that has been almost a full year: Musk sues Openai In March, it claimed that the company had abandoned its “mission to develop AGI for the benefit of mankind” in exchange for the pursuit of profits. Openai was founded as a nonprofit, but established a for-profit subsidiary in 2019 after Musk left, and the money has been free and swift ever since.
All of this sounds noble, but in December 2024 Openai issued a statement saying Musk has Launch a for-profit structure For 2017 Openai, he requested a position as CEO of the majority equity and for-profit division. Openai eventually rejected the proposal and told Musk that “as the company makes real progress in AGI, you will still choose to retain absolute control over the company despite the opposite intention at present.” Musk then proposed Openai and Transactions between Tesla to facilitate fundraising. Musk resigned shortly after the offer was rejected. In 2023, he established his own competitive AI joint venture. xai.
The whole thing is reminded of Musk’s infamous Twitter crush in 2022, when the richest man in the world did Ready-made quotes to buy Twitter For $44 billion, then do your best Get rid of it months ago Legal disputes Twing him with arms End the transaction. But the biggest difference in Openai’s proposal is that it is not just the shakyness of social media dicking, it is gradually getting out of control. The proposal has been supported by several large investors, which means two things: It is a serious proposal and (perhaps) will not be derailed by Musk’s unstable behavior.
It’s hard to say that all this might be solved. $97.4 billion is a lot of money $300 billionthe company also leads a joint venture called Star Gate This will enable the U.S. government to make $500 billion in the development of artificial intelligence infrastructure. The numbers basically make no sense, except that a quote that is less than $100 billion may not be enough to get the job done, especially given Musk’s handling of Twitter, now called X, Struggle Under his tenure.
If the deal ends up reaching an agreement, it could give Musk a significant and potentially controlled interest in Openai; how this will affect Openai – whether it can be merged with Xai, somehow intertwined with Tesla and/or SpaceX Together, or just killed DeepSeek– Someone speculated.
Regardless of the future, it looks like personal beef will be the big entertainment among them. Altman hints at X’s financial woes and the value of post-Musk in his response to the proposal, wrote: “No, thank you, but we’ll be $9.74 billion if you want to Buy Twitter at the price. ” In a word response, Musk called Ultraman a “scammer.” Later, he released a short video clip before the U.S. Senate, calling him “Scam Artman. ”
