Elon Musk is leading a group of investors with a $97.4 billion bid to control Openai, the artificial intelligence company that runs ChatGpt.
In a social media post, Openai CEO Sam Altman replied: (n)oThank you, I’ll buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if necessary,” referring to the social media app I bought in 2022 for $44 billion.
The offer to buy Musk’s ChatGpt was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
The offer comes amidst the longstanding conflict between Musk and Altman over the direction of the open rai that Musk discovered in 2015. Musk is the wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of over $400 billion. Sued Altman and Openai Last year, the AI ​​company claimed, among other claims, formed a mission to benefit the public.
This offer is because Openai is about to transform it into a for-profit business. This is the decision that AI companies have said that technology will help them pursue their mission of “benefiting all humanity.” Openai has also entered into a partnership with Microsoft. I invested billions The AI ​​company has integrated Openai’s GPT-4 technology into a software program.
“At X.ai, we live in the values ​​Openai has promised to follow. We created the GrokOpen Source and respected the rights of content creators,” Musk said in a statement, adding that the AI ​​developed by X I mentioned the app. .ai. “Now is the time for Openai to return to its open source, safety-focused power. We’ll see that happens.”
The investor group is Musk’s X.Ai Corp. Included. Baron Capital Group; Courage Management; Altreides Management. Vy Fund III; Emmanuel Capital Management. Eight partner VCs, according to a statement from Marc Toberoff, a lawyer representing investors.
The funds from the $97.4 billion offer will be “used solely for Openai, Inc.’s original charity mission,” the investor group said in a statement.
