After buying Twitter and Take a leading role in the Trump administrationThe richest man in the world now has a new goal: Tech Industry Darling Openai. In a step that was first reported by von The Wall Street JournalElon Musk apparently made an offer of 97.4 billion US dollars for the purchase of the non -profit organization that Openai checked on Monday morning to the company’s board.
In addition to Musk, the offer has the support of risk capitalists, including Hollywood Media Mogul Ari Emanuel and the co -founder of Palantir, Joe Lonsdale, not alone. Nevertheless, it would be a big step for Musk who has who has publicly violate with Openai and worked to develop his own alternative X is grok.
The offer also follows Openas announcement alongside President Trump from Stargate projectA plan to invest 500 billion US dollars in building the domestic AI infrastructure of the United States. Here, too, Openai is not alone in this initiative after supporting Softbank, Oracle and MGX as well as technological support from Nvidia, ARM and Microsoft.
In other words, if the purchase went through, Openais partners suddenly had to fight some rather unexpected new faces.
The offer is made in the middle of the experiment by Openai CEO Sam Altman Restructure the non -profit organization into a non -profit company as well as an effort too Collect 40 billion US dollars in the financing, which would hand over the value of the startup 340 billion US dollars. Altman has already published a short message about the X Decring Musk offer and jokes that Openai would be ready to buy the former Twitter for 9.74 billion US dollars.
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Ok, brutal, Altman’s reaction may not be the end of the offer, since the CEO still has to fight with other board members: Openais structure means that no board members have direct equity in the company, which makes the coordination of such decisions a team. In addition, Microsoft already has an economic interest in the minority in the company, and it is possible that the company will no longer want to pursue this relationship with new leadership.
For what it is worth, this is not Musk’s first time with Openaai. The billionaire was co -founded with Altman in 2015 the non -profit arm of Openai Departure in 2019. Openai later wrote that Musk said that the “probability of success of the group was 0”, 0 “,” 0 “be 0”.
Now it seems that his attitude has changed. In a statement that his lawyer gave the Wall Street Journal, Musk said: “It is time for Openaai to return to the open source security power that it was once.”
