Elon Musk is interested in taking over OpenAI. The billionaire and the investor consortium submitted a purchase offer for $ 97.4 billion – informs the daily “Wall Street Journal”. The co -founder of the company remaining in the many years of conflict with Musk clearly rejected the offer. Instead, Musk proposed the purchase of Platform X (formerly Twitter).
“WSJ” representing Musk and allied investors from Silicon Valley Marc Toberoff informed about the submitted offer.
Elon Musk refused
“Time to restore OpenAi to strength for a good -focused good and open source. We will ensure that this will happen,” said Musk in a published statement.
The offer amounts to $ 97.4 billion and concerns the takeover of the non-profit OpenAI Foundation, which formally controls the company standing behind ChatgPT.
Openai head Altman himself rejected to the offer in the entry on the X. platform.
“No, thank you, but we'll buy Twitter for 9.74 billion if you want,” he wrote.
Long -term conflict
Altman and Musk, who were among OpenAI co -founders in 2015, have been in conflict for many years, and last year. Musk sued a former partner, accusing him of misappropriation of the statutory mission of an organization based on non-profit ideas, open source and the safe development of AI. Derived from South Africa The billionaire also founded his own company developing artificial intelligence, XAI, which is one of the members of the consortium attempting to take over OpenAI.
Until now, Microsoft is the largest investor in Openai. As “WSJ” writes, the offer submitted by Musk complicates Altman's plans regarding the future of his organization, including transforming it fully into an ordinary enterprise and an investment plan to $ 500 billion into AI infrastructure as part of the “Stargate” project. Shortly after Altman announced the initiative in the White House, Musk stated that Altman did not have promised money.
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