“Openai is not on sale and the council unanimously rejected Mr. Musk’s last attempt to disturb the competition,” said Bret Taylor
OpenAi’s board of directors has announced that it unanimously rejected Elon Musk’s offer to buy the artificial intelligence company for $ 97.4 billion (93.4 billion euros).
“OpenAi is not for sale and the council unanimously rejected Mr. Musk’s last attempt to disturb the competition,” Bret Taylor’s chairman Bret Taylor said on Friday.
The board’s decision, published on Social Network X, owned by Elon Musk, reiterates the statement by OpenAi executive director Sam Altman, who said the company “was not on sale on Monday.”
On Wednesday, Elon Musk had threatened to withdraw the proposal for the purchase of OpenAi, in case the board prevents it from conversion in a profitable company, the tycoon said.
“If OpenAi’s board of directors is prepared to preserve the mission of the charity institution […] Musk will withdraw the offer, ”said Magnata’s lawyers in a lawsuit presented in the state of California on Wednesday.
On Monday, it was reported that the owner of Tesla and a group of investors had made the offer, to which OpenAi CEO Sam Altman responded with “no, thank you.”
“It’s time for OpenAi to be the open and safety -centered force of open source,” said Musk, in a statement provided by his lawyer when the offer.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the unquited offer complicated Altman’s plans to the future of OpenAi, including its conversion in a profitable company and investing in an investment of up to $ 500 billion (476 billion euros ) Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure (AI) for the US through a ‘joint venture’, also involving Oracle and Softbank, called Stargate.
In the legal document presented on Wednesday, Musk accused the company of maintaining its technology with a closed code to remain “in the hands of Microsoft.”
Microsoft uses OpenAi technology to feed its AI by 2023, the technology giant invested 12.46 billion euros in exchange for a 49% share of OpenAi’s for -profit division profits.
Musk was one of the founders of OpenAi in 2015, but in 2018 he separated from the company, but since the launch of ChatgPT, he said on several occasions that OpenAi has been leading AI in dangerous directions for the future of humanity.
