Elon Musk, Executive Director of Tesla Inc., on the eve of the 60th parade of the president’s inauguration at Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, USA, on Monday, January 20, 2025.
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Elon musk is the leading group of investors on offer to buy control of the Openi for $ 97.4 billion, Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The offer was for a non -profit organization that oversees the startup of artificial intelligence, reported the magazine, adding that Mušk’s lawyer, Marc Toberoff, said he filed the offer on Monday.
WSJ quoted a statement by Musk provided by Toberoff, saying, “It’s time to go back to the open Kos, a force focused on safety, it used to be.”
In a Post on xOPENAI CEO of Openi -Sam Altman wrote: “No thank you, but we’ll buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you want.”
Musk, who is a top counselor President Donald TrumpIt is in the midst of a fierce legal and public relationship with Altman. They were two co-founders of OPENAI in 2015, establishing an entity as a non-profit organization focused on AI research.
Openai has since appeared as a giant in the generative AI, launched Chatgpt 2022 and set a wave of investments in new tools and infrastructure for the next generation AI products and services. Softbank is Close to finalization Investing in the amount of $ 40 billion in an opening at an opening of $ 260 billion, sources told CNBC last week David Faber.
Musk now has competitors on the AI market, startup called Xai, and is sue Openiaccusing him of violating antitrustovsky and attempting to not turn into a profit corporation.
In the meantime, OpenAI is in collaboration with SoftBank and Oracle in a project that Trump published immediately after his inauguration called Stargate, which invites a company to invest billion dollars in AI infrastructure in the USA
The Musk’s offer supports the XAI, for which the magazine is reported that he could connect with Openi if he agreed. Other investors on offer include Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, 8VC and the ARI Emanuel investment fund, the work reported.
On January 7, Toberoff sent a letter to the Chief Lawyers in California and Delaware, asking for the opening offers to open.
