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Elon Musk and the Suinvestor Group have submitted an offer of almost $ 100 billion for a non-profit organization that controls the opening, complicating the attempt to executive director Sam Altman to start a start-up into a non-profit subject.
Musk He sent an offer to the Board of Directors Openi on Monday, according to a person who has a direct knowledge of the matter.
Shortly after Wall Street Journal first reported on an unwanted approach, Altman said on social networks X: “No thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you want.” Musk bought Twitter 2022 and renamed it in X.
Altman is in the process of converting Open In profit, the recruitment of the company from the root as a non -profit research organization.
Musk, co-founder of OpenAI who invested tens of millions of dollars in a newly minted company before leaving his committee in 2018, said the conversion issued a driver’s driver. Launched more lawsuits against Altman and openii.
OPENAI’s profit transition would include the leisure of a non-profit organization as a separate unit.
One of the main obstacles of conversion was to determine the fair value for a non -profit organization that, under the current structure, controls the company. Openai, a private company that talks about collecting new capital with an estimate of $ 260 billion ago, has no obligation to sell.
Separately as part of the company’s conversion to profit, Openi talked about an estimate of about $ 30 billion for a non -profit entity, according to people who know about discussion. Male lawyers claimed that the figure should be far higher and invited the competitive bidding process.
