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There is almost never a boring moment on the rhythm of AI, and today has no exception: The Wall Street Journal This afternoon reported that a consortium of private investors led by the richest man in the world, the owner of several Elon Musk companies, had presented an offer of $ 97.4 billion The OPENAI non-profit board of directors to acquire the for-profit subsidiary of the company managed by the former co-founder who became a rival, the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman.
By putting aside the long and disorderly of history between the two men, which has already led to several proceedings, the declared objective of Musk to want to acquire another company at the top of the six he already has or races ( SpaceX, Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink, X, XAI) is to make Open Source Openai, according to its original founding mission statement of the performance of the advantages of AI and general artificial intelligence (AG) for all .
“It is time for OpenAi to return to open source force and focused on good,” Musk said in a statement provided by his lawyer at the Newspaper. “We will make sure that this happens.”
The takeover offer is also personal for Musk, who after having co-founded and made the company finance in 2015 alongside Altman and 9 othersdecided to Get out of the company in 2018Only to become one of its greatest public and rival commercial criticisms. He founded his own Xai startup in 2023 and built a superclus of massive AI model formation of graphic processing units (GPU) in Memphis, Tennessee, known by name Colossus.
Musk with double loudspeakers
However, the offer to control Openai seems to be a tacit admission. Despite all its rapid and heavy investments in the rotation of a competitor – the Rival Grok Chatbot has made the social network X, and the multimodal model and the programming interface (API) underlying Grok -2 – Musk does not succeed Not win as much users as he and his collaborators could love.
This would also suggest that the GROK -3 model – apparently in training, and what accounts of pseudonym rumors on X have excited as rush – East Maybe not also advanced or ready Like competition (namely these days: Deepseek-R1 and “O” of Openai models “.)
Altman himself went to Musk’s social network to reject the idea that Musk acquires Openai, writing: “No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you wish”, to which Musk replied with Another message Call Altman “Scam Altman”.
While some Journalists suggested that Musk’s offer can have the effect of complicated Openai’s neat plans to turn the for profit for the non -profit portfolio company – for which the price was suggested of less than 40 billion dollars – The truth is that the last link of financing for OPENAI estimated it at $ 157 billion, so the two prices are ultimately, much lower than the current investor harvest bought the company.
Not out of the question
However, it is not out of the question that Musk could succeed with this takeover offer. After all, his attempt to resume Twitter (and finally to change the name in X) was also considered a long leaving by some in the press – until it happens for real, and probably changed the course of history by promoting more messages of conservatives and curator and conservative influencers in a freewheel and paying subscribers to verified journalists of the past, influencing the elections of 2024 and a myriad of other world events and perceptions / Visions of the individual world.
Which also raises the question, in particular in the light of its controversial Nazi type salute during the second inauguration of Trump Day and general support for Far -right policy worldwide: If Musk succeeds in taking Openai, would you continue to use his products (Chatgpt, Sora, Dall-E 3, APIs and various other models and services) or go to another IA model supplier? After all, a number of people and organizations have left X for short competing socialization platforms Bluesky and son In the wake of Musk’s takeover and general movements to support Trump and far -right politicians.
I should also accelerate to emphasize that Musk has promoted points of view and political positions, I find personally detestable, his Grok AI model allowed an expression of the wheel and free form much freer than most other models of The competitors, in particular with regard to the generation of images – this is how I created the resemblance of Altman at the top of this post, for example. It is a commendable position in my eyes, and could indicate that an OpenAi control would cause less censored / restricted models, that I support.
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