Offer submitted
Musk group wants to take control of OpenAI
A group of investors led by tech billionaire Elon Musk has submitted a nearly $100 billion bid to take control of ChatGPT inventor OpenAI. The 97.4 billion dollar offer was submitted to OpenAI's board of directors on Monday, a lawyer for Musk told the Wall Street Journal.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reacted derisively. "No thanks," he wrote on Musk's online platform X. But Musk would buy Twitter for 9.74 billion dollars if he wanted to. The tech billionaire paid around 44 billion dollars for the short message service Twitter, the basis of X, in 2022. OpenAI did not comment beyond this. The Board of Directors is unlikely to be under pressure to deal with the offer.
Attack on the restructuring of OpenAI
OpenAI is currently in the process of changing its structure and transforming itself into a for-profit company. Musk, once a co-founder of OpenAI, is already fighting the start-up in court to prevent this. Among other things, he is claiming that he was cheated when he left the company.
The investor group is bidding for the non-profit organization that previously controlled OpenAI. The original goal of OpenAI was to develop artificial intelligence for the benefit of humanity. Altman also founded a for-profit subsidiary in 2019 to raise money from investors such as Microsoft. Now OpenAI as a whole is to become a profit-oriented company. Some former employees have warned that this step could increase the risks involved in AI development.
According to media reports, OpenAI is currently in talks with investors such as Microsoft about what share of the profit-oriented company they will receive. Microsoft had invested billions in OpenAI, giving the start-up access to enormous computer resources. In return, Microsoft gained access to OpenAI's AI technology and integrated it into its software products.
Musk lawyer: will outbid counter-offers
In addition to Musk's own AI company xAI, several financial investors are participating in the offer, according to the Wall Street Journal. Musk's lawyer told the newspaper that the group was prepared to outbid any competing bid.
According to media reports, OpenAI was also recently in talks with investors about a new financing round with a volume of up to 40 billion dollars. OpenAI is aiming for a total valuation of 300 billion dollars, wrote the Wall Street Journal. The Japanese technology group Softbank wants to invest between 15 and 25 billion dollars.
Softbank is also a partner of OpenAI in the Stargate project presented by Donald Trump to build AI data centers in the USA. According to the announcement, they want to invest up to 500 billion dollars. Musk, who became a close confidant of Trump, later claimed that OpenAI and Softbank did not have that much money.
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