On Friday, the Openai Board of Directors rejected a $ 97.4 billion offer by Elon Musk and an union of investors to control the artificial intelligence company, and deepen the dispute between Mr. Musk and the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman.
“Openai is not for sale, and the Board of Directors unanimously rejected Mr. Musk’s last attempt to disrupt his competitor.” Mr. Taylor was referring to the MUSK company for Ai Company, Xai.
Openai sent a letter on Friday to Marc Toberoff, the lawyer who represents Mr. Musk and the investors present the offer, saying that the offer “was not in the interest of the Oaii mission”, a artificial intelligence building that benefits “both” humanity. “
Openai’s rejection followed the offer of 97.4 billion dollars from Mr. Musk and other investors on Monday to obtain non -profit assets that control Openai. With the show, Mr. Musk was interfering in a plan developed by Mr. Altman to change the Openai structure. Mr. Taman hopes to convert control of the company to Openai investors, including Microsoft.
“This is not surprising, given that Altman and Chair, Taylor, already refused to offer the MUSK of $ 97 billion while saying that they have not received it yet. We were surprised by the vision of the Board of Directors, which has duties A strict credit for careful view in goodwill on behalf of the charitable institution, the same type of dual spokesman used to testify to the Senate.
Mr. Toberoff insisted that Openai had already set non -profit assets for sale. He said: “They sell it to themselves in a small part of what Musk presented and enriching the members of the Board of Directors,” instead of charity in a classic deal that is self -roaming. “He added:” Does someone explain how this benefit this “humanity”?
Mr. Musk did not immediately respond to the comment.
Mr. Musk and Mr. Altman was at odds for years. Mr. Musk helped create Openai as a non -profit institution in 2015, along with Mr. Altman and others. In 2018, Mr. Musk left the organization after a battle to control the company. Then Mr. Altman connects Openai to a profitable company so that he could collect billions of dollars needed to build artificial intelligence technologies.
Not profitable, though, kept controlling the company. Last year, Mr. Al -Tamman and his colleagues began working on a plan to convert control of the company without profitability to Openai investors.
Mr. Musk $ 97.4 offered this plan. To separate Openai from the non -profit council, Mr. Altman and its allies must compensate. Openai may pay one -time fee for one time, for example, or give it a minority stake in the company.
But non -profit origins were given value, which was what Mr. Musk was trying to establish with his attempt. Its width means that the Openai profit arm should spend more to gain independence from non -profit organizations.
Mr. Musk also filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court last year to prevent Openai’s plans to restructure.
This week, Robert Punta, California and Democrat Prosecutor, said in an interview that the state was examining Openai’s plan to turn into a profitable structure.
“There is a way to do this correctly. He said,” There is a way to do this wrongly, and we are watching to make sure they do this correctly, “adding that his office was closely watching Mr. Musk.
“We are watching everything he does,” said Mr. Punta.
As Mr. Musk Battle Openai, he also collects money for Xai. Two people with knowledge of the discussions of up to $ 75 billion, up from about $ 40 billion just two months ago, said that the startup, which is making Chatbot called GROK, is holding talks on a new financing round that can be estimated at up to 75 billion dollars, up. From about 40 billion dollars just two months ago.
They said that the talks are in the early stages, and it is not clear how much money will be collected. Bloomberg earlier I mentioned Talks.
Xai raised $ 6 billion in December, saying it would use money to build infrastructure and accelerate research and development. Share Blackrock, Fidelity, Sequoia Capital and other financing investors.
(The New York Times filed a lawsuit against Openai and Microsoft for violating copyright for news content related to artificial intelligence systems. Openai and Microsoft denied these claims.)