After Elon Musk Bid, Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is ‘Not for Sale’
Sam Altman is postponing unsolicited bids from Elon Musk and a group of investors to buy nonprofits that control OpenAI. The $97.4 billion bid, which was backed by Musk’s AI company XAI and supported by several investment companies, deepened the ongoing battle of Musk and Altman on Openai, which they co-founded in 2015.
bid, Report In the early days of the Wall Street Journal, Altman planned to transform Openai into a for-profit company. Openai also recently announced the Stargate project, which plans to invest up to $500 billion in new AI infrastructure in OpenAI over the next four years.
Ultraman and Musk have faced it In courtMusk claims Altman Counterattack At some point, Musk himself wanted to turn Openai into a for-profit entity. Openai said a for-profit department is needed to support human authorized missions. Both Musk and Ultraman will attend the AI Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday to discuss AI’s security guardrails.
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“It’s time to get Openai back to open source, security-centric forces that were once what they were,” Musk said in a statement. “We will make sure that happens.”
exist Tweets Response to the bid, Altman mentioned Musk’s social media company X (formerly Twitter) and said: “No, thank you, but we’ll buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want , ” transferred the decimal point in Musk’s left and right bids. According to the Wall Street Journal, Altman also told Openai employees that Musk’s bid was “trying to weaken us because we are making huge progress,” he said.
Expert: “I don’t know” what Musk hopes to accomplish
Openai was originally a nonprofit organization, but after Musk left and Altman became CEO a few years after Musk left, the company began raising funds from investors including Microsoft as part of a for-profit subsidiary. Now that Altman is working to convert a for-profit subsidiary into a traditional company to make it more profitable, questions about how the nonprofit sector will value and what it means to consumers.
“We can already see a shift to for-profit,” Paul Schell told CNET. “They are one of the most mature AI companies operating in the market right now, regardless of whether it is a The real intention behind its cutting-edge model development. In other words, if today’s operations were “charitable” or Pursuing something The transition to for-profit will not look very different except for profit. ”
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However, how this will directly affect consumers remains unknown. Schell said it could waste user costs, but “the future pricing is very difficult to predict.”
“If innovation in hardware or software can significantly reduce costs, and innovative companies can take advantage of this to achieve market share, others will be forced to follow,” Schell said. “Again, if the model becomes transformative, and More deeply integrated into people’s workflow and lives, we may be willing to give more to visit.”
As for Musk, Sher said it is not clear what he is trying to achieve by bidding for Openai.
“Even if he has the funds – OpenAI’s goal is to increase valuation – the board won’t agree to such a move because there is a deep rift between Altman and Musk,” Schell said.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday, Altman explain He believes Musk’s bid is part of a bigger effort to “slow us.” Musk’s Xai is a direct competitor to Openai, who has spent a lot of time and effort developing products to compete with Openai’s Chatgpt service.
“Openai is not for sale. The Openai mission is not for sale. Elon has tried all kinds of things for a long time. It’s an episode of this week,” Ultraman said in an interview.
“I hope he can only compete by building better products,” he added. “But I think there are a lot of strategies, a lot of lawsuits and all kinds of crazy things.
