A consortium led by Elon Musk has offered 97.4 billion dollars for the purchase of the non -profit organization that Openai controls, as reported on Monday The Wall Street Journal. The operation is known months after the richest man in the world – indoor of X and Tesla, among other companies – sued the startup of artificial intelligence due to discrepancies about its transition to a company for profit. That deepened the tensions between Musk and the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, faced not only about the future of the company that began together, but also on the path that the revolutionary technology must take in the coming years.
The offer is well below the OpenAI market value and is a hostile provocation of the South African tycoon. In the past, the relationship between Musk and Altman was good: both founded Openai in 2015 as a non -profit company. That selfless final objective changed in 2019, when Musk was no longer part of the company, and Altman created a subsidiary that was chasing profit and that was the one that allowed him to catapult Openai to another dimension, thanks to the entry of the financing of the financing of Microsoft, among other investors. At the moment, OpenAi is immersed in a merger process so that the non -profit organization is done with the control of the other part of the company.
The friction between both Silicon Valley magnates have deteriorated greatly since their separation. The proximity of Musk to the US president, Donald Trump, did not prevent Altman Essential in the new administration, of which he has received the commission to lose weight expenses. That Altman has been able to pass over the owner of Tesla speaks of the volatile that can become the loyalty of the new president.
The enmity between the two later reached the courts: Musk has presented a series of demands in which he accuses Openai of betraying his original spirit by seeking the benefit and allying with Microsoft to dominate the development of AI. When they presented one of those complaints, Musk’s lawyers argued that, from the moment Microsoft partnered with OpenAi, it changed the target and focused on earning money, which clashes with their founding mood. “OpenAI, Inc. has become a de facto subsidiary of the world’s largest technology company: Microsoft,” said the demand filed in San Francisco. “Under his new board of directors, he is not only developing, but also perfecting, an AGI [IA general, la que pueda igualar o superar las capacidades humanas] To maximize Microsoft’s benefits, instead of doing so for the benefit of humanity. ”
When a couple of weeks ago the signature of the Stargate project was known, which included, in addition to OpenAi, SoftBank and Oracle, and foresees the investment of up to 500,000 million dollars to boost artificial intelligence and infrastructure necessary to support it, MUSK He returned to the load, and attacked the pact in X, the social network of which he also owns. Apuse in doubt that the investment was assured, as they had promised. “They do not have the money,” he wrote in response to an OpenAi post about the ad. “SoftBank has much less than 10,000 million assured dollars. I know it in a good source, ”he added.
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