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Sam Altman Says OpenAI is Taking Musk’s $97.4B Offer ‘Not Particularly’ Seriously
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Key Points
- Sam Altman said on Tuesday that Openai is taking the offer from Elon Musk and other investors seriously.
- Altman told reporters at the Paris AI conference that he believes Musk may just be trying to “slow up the competitors” so Musk’s own AI projects can “try to catch up.”
- Musk reportedly led a group of investors to provide $97.4 billion in control of nonprofits with legal authority over OpenAI.
Openai CEO Sam Altman has responded Reported a quote of $97.4 billion From Elon Musk and other investors, taking over the nonprofit that controls Openai’s legal control, Microsoft (Microsoft) (MSFT) – Chatgpt’s developer, said he is taking the proposal seriously.
Altman was captured on Tuesday’s video of a question from several journalists in Paris CNBC.
Ask him what Tesla thinksTSLA“I don’t know, I’m curious. I think slowing down the competitor and trying to catch up with him, but I really don’t know.”
Response to the following is a report on the acquisition offer of approximately $97.4 billion
Tesla CEO’s attorney Marc Toberoff told this Wall Street Journal exist on Monday. this Magazine The report said that if the offer is to move forward, Openai could merge with Musk’s own AI work XAI.
“I think he might just want to slow us down. He is obviously a competitor,” Altman told Bloomberg in another interview Tuesday. “I hope he can only compete by building better products, but I think there are a lot of strategies now, a lot of litigation, all sorts of other crazy stuff, right now.”
Shortly after the quote was reported, Altman turned it down on social media and jokingly willing to buy Musk’s social media platform X, formerly Twitter, At $9.74 billion, 10% of Openai quote was reported. Altman and many other executives from around the AI industry are holding summits on AI development in France.
this Magazine and this New York Times Everyone reported that the proposal could complicate Openai’s ongoing funding round and its future plans with nonprofit support.
Toberoff’s law firm and Openai did not immediately respond to requests for comment early Tuesday morning.
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