An investor consortium led by Elon Musk submitted an $ 97.4 billion offer for the Artificial Intelligence Research Company OpenAI. According to The Wall Street Journal, the offer was forwarded to the OpenAI board of directors on Monday.
This proposal significantly increases Musk’s competition in the field of artificial intelligence. In addition to the Consortium, Musk’s artificial intelligence company XAI, Valor Equity Partners, Hollywood producer Ari Emanuel and Palantir’s founding partner Joe Lonsdale’s venture company 8VC.
OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman, is currently busy with great agreements such as transforming the company into a profit -making structure, collecting $ 40 billion with a valuation of $ 340 billion and an artificial intelligence infrastructure project of 500 billion dollars.
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Elon Musk and Sam Altman founded OpenAI together in 2015. Musk, who left the company in 2019, seems to have made the most aggressive move against OpenAI, which he claimed to have violated his original mission. Musk claimed that they had established OpenAI safely and clearly to develop artificial intelligence, but the company deviated from this mission, and therefore filed a lawsuit against OpenAI.
Musk said to The Wall Street Journal through his lawyer Marc Taberoff, “OpenaI was once a while, it was time to become a powerful, security -oriented power that serves the public interest. We will make this happen. ” he said.
This proposal adds significant complexity to the exit process of the non -profit structure planned by OpenAI. Musk’s team promises to match or exceed higher offers, making Altman’s negotiations on shares of profit, which is planned to Microsoft and other stakeholders.
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Immediately after the announcement of the news, Altman said on the Platform X, “No, thanks, but if you want, we can buy Twitter (x) for $ 9,74 billion.” made a share in the form of. This humorous response shows that Altman rejected Musk’s offer.
OpenAI responded to the requests of comments by pointing to this sharing. Musk’s lawyer Toberoff did not respond immediately to comments.
The proposal of the consortium led by Musk may complicate OpenAI’s current transformation plans and future funding efforts. It also raises questions about the valuation of the economic interests of the non -profit organization in the process of exitting OpenAI’s non -profit structure. This may make the negotiations with Altman with Microsoft and other stakeholders.