A team of investors led by Elon Musk submitted an offer of $ 97.6 billion to buy Openai on Monday. The news comes by Musk lawyer, Marc Toberoff, who confirmed the report With the Wall Street Journal.
The unsolicited offer is the last climbing of Musk in his war with the co-founder Sam Altman, while Altman seeks to take the private chatgpt-maker. Musk is already involved in a legal dispute with Openai, depositing an injunction in 2024 against his efforts to move away from non -profit status. The team led by Musk positions the movement as an attempt to conservation the initial open source of the organization.
“It is time for OpenAi to return to the open source force focused on good,” Musk told Tuberoff. “We will make sure that this happens.” The Musk’s IA company, XAI, is involved in the offer, leading to speculations according to which a successful acquisition could find the two merging companies.
Altman A – rightly – responded to the offer via a cheeky postBy writing, “[N]o Thank you but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you wish. Musk bought Twitter for $ 44 billion in 2022.
