Paris – Openai Sam Altman 97.4 billion dollars in the acquisition Under his opponent, Elon Musk, but unwanted offer can hold Altman’s batch to convert Chatgpt maker into a profit company.
“We are not for sale,” Al -Tamman said on Tuesday at the Summit of Artificial Intelligence in Paris.
Musk’s offer, which was announced on Monday, is the latest in a bitter battle with Altman to control the start of artificial intelligence that helped them find them a decade ago as a non -profit organization and is now a leading force in the surrounding global boom Artificial Intelligence Technology.
“Openai is an important Openai,” Altman told France Minister of Idecem in a discussion on the stage on Tuesday by technology industry workers and investors. “We are an unusual organization and we have this task of making AGI benefit from humanity. We are here to do so.”
Its stated goal since its foundation in 2015 is to build a safe artificial intelligence safely, more than a person known as artificial general intelligence, or AGI. Musk, an early investor and a member of the Board of Directors, resigned in 2018 after leaving a struggle for the official Altman internal authority.
Their general runner has escalated over the past year Musk spent a lawsuit against Openai It works to develop its artificial intelligence company called Xai, which is part of the Business Empire that includes Tesla and Spacex and the X. Musk social media platform now takes power as a better adviser to President Donald Trump in reshaping the United States government, and publicly has. Doubt about the Trump -backed Openai Private Investment Project To build artificial intelligence data centers in the United States.
The offer holds Openai’s plan to change its structure Away from its non -profit roots A company owned by shareholders.
The non -profit Openai panel will need to think about the Musk Show. Altman alone was not the one who could accept or reject it, although the Chairman of the Board, Brett Taylor, echoed Altman’s approach and announced that “Openai is not for sale” at the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday in Palo Alto, California.
Taylor said that Musa’s move was “to a great distraction” of the credit council’s duty towards his mission.
As a non -profit council, Taylor said, “Our function is very simple, which is to evaluate every strategic decision of the organization through this test,” Does this actually increase the task of ensuring Agi Fienity Humanity? “I have difficulty seeing how this will be.”
The council will need a weight not only the value of the company’s assets, but also the value of the company that develops this technology. Musk’s width also appears to be a floor about how much it should be paid if it gives up controlling its subsidiaries.
“The Board of Directors should consider the credibility of the Musk offer, including if he and his investors will pay a cash. And they must think about whether a new council under the control of musk and other investors will be independent and what they can present to protect it from protecting its general mission.
Musk 44 billion dollars to acquire Twitter In 2022, he also started with an undesirable offer and a legal battle with the Twitter board of directors, which was also led by Taylor, a former Facebook and Salesforce. However, Openai’s seizure will be more complicated because of its charitable purpose.
“There is a binding purpose,” said Gil Horowitz, a professor at the University of California Law Faculty of Los Angeles. “The promise made to the public when Openai, non -profit, has been formed. This promise is legally implemented.”
The sudden popularity of ChatGPT two years ago brought global fame and new commercial capabilities for OpenAi, as well as increasing internal disturbances on the organization’s future and advanced AI that was trying to develop it. The non -profit board was launched, Altman launched in late 2023. It returned a few days later with a new plate.
The purpose of non -profit Openai, as recently specified in 2020, is “(to) to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity, including through procedure and/or financing artificial intelligence research.”
The question is, can he do this if he sells his origins and loses control of the company that develops this technology?
He said, “The promise of the world is that you are committed with a legal goal and to build with this promise, including informing investors that no returns and thinking about your investments are more expected to be more than investment.” Horowitz. We would like to have this. This seems to be a real violation of the promise. “
Musk A lawsuit against Openai Last year, first in the California Court, and later in the Federal Court, it claimed that it had betrayed its foundational target as a non -profit research laboratory that would benefit the public commodity. A lawyer told Musk that he had invested about $ 45 million in the start of its establishment until 2018.
Openai and Musk attorneys in a federal court in California last week, where the judge was weighing a request to the court’s order that would prevent the transfer of Openai to profit.
The judge has not yet ruled MUSK, but in the courtroom she said it was “an extension” that Musk claimed that he would be damaged in an irreplaceable way if it did not interfere to prevent Openai from moving forward with his planned transfer. But she also suggested that Musk have reasonable arguments enough to take it to the trial of the jury.
Besides Musk and XAI, others support the show on Monday Baron Capital Group, Valor Management, Atreides Management, Vy Fund and the companies run by Musk Allies Ari Emanuel and Jon Lonsdale.
“They intend to become a fully profitable company, it is important for the charity to be somewhat compensated for what its leadership robs: controlling more than others transformational technology of our time.”
Altman told the employees this week that the Openai structure “guarantees that no individual control Openai” and sought to describe Musk tactics as a competitor trying to catch up with the knee.
“I think he might only try to slow us down. It is clear that he is a competitor.
Continue their deep personal conflict, Altman said that Musk may not be a “happy person”.
His entire life may be from the position of insecurity. I feel the man.
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