Elon Musk, general director of Tesla Inc., before the 60th presidential parade of inauguration at the Capital One Arena in Washington, USA, on Monday, January 20, 2025.
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Elon Musk He runs a group of investors in the offer of buying control over OpenAI for $ 97.4 billion, Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
In the journal, he reports that the offer is for non -profit, which supervises the startup of artificial intelligence, adding that Muska's lawyer, Marc Toberoff, said he had made an offer on Monday.
WSJ quoted Musk's statement provided by Toberoff, saying: “It is time for OpenAI to return to the open -oriented power for good.”
IN Post on XThe CEO of Opeli, Altman himself, wrote: “Thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you want.” Musk then answered the head of Opeli to X, calling him “fraud,“And in response to another user, he called him”Altman fraud.”
Musk, who is the best adviser President Donald TrumpIt is in the middle of a hot legal battle and public relations with Altman. They were two co-founders of Openai in 2015, establishing the individual as a non-profit organization focused on AI research.
Since then, Opennai appeared as a giant from generative artificial intelligence, launching chatgpt in 2022 and launching a wave of investment in new tools and infrastructure in products and services and new generation AI. Softbank Is close to finalization The investment by $ 40 billion at OpenAI with a valuation of $ 260 billion, sources informed David Faber from CNBC last week.
Musk now has a competitor on the artificial intelligence market, a startup called XAI, and is Openai lawsuitaccusing him of antitrust violations and an attempt to stop him from transforming into a profit -oriented corporation.
Meanwhile, Opeli collaborated with Softbank and Oracle in the project announced by Trump right after the inauguration called Stargate, which calls the company to invest billions of dollars in AI infrastructure in the USA
Musk's offer is supported by XAI, which magazine reports could connect to Opennai if the contract took place. Other investors in the offer are Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, 8VC and the ARI Emanuel investment fund.
Toberoff sent a letter to the Prosecutor General in California and Delaware on January 7, asking for opening auction at OpenAI.
