Elon Musk-led consortium offers $100bn to take control of OpenAI

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Elon has submitted about $ 100bn bids for non-profit that controls the OpenAI, which is a co-investor, which complicates the attempt to convert Chief Executive Sam Altman’s start-up into a profitable entity.

Wicker According to a direct knowledge of the matter, the bid was submitted to the Board of Directors of the Openai on Monday.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the undesirable $ 97.4bn method at Ultman Social Media Site X, “Thank you but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if we want.” The musk bought Twitter in 2022 and named it X.

Ultman is in the process of transforming Open For profit, to take the company away from its roots as a non -profit research agency.

Kasturi, whose Start-up Jai is a direct contestant of the Openai, has made multiple attempts to derail this attempt. Last month, Mask’s attorney Mark Tobarf Delaware and California’s attorney-general called for the opening to force the opening to launch a competitive auction for non-profit, which sits at the center of the company.

Open, which says it is not entertaining external offers for non -profit, refused to comment on bids.

Tesla Boss for non -profit UltmanThe Former associates are now competing to dominate artificial intelligence, collecting billions of dollars and creating huge data centers. Open is planning to develop $ 500 billion in AI infrastructure in the coming years through a softbank-baked project called Stargate.

Openai’s co-founder mask, who invested several million dollars before leaving the board in 2018, says that the transformation betrayed with the founder of the start-ups. He has begun a case against Altman and Openai.

The transformation for profit for the opening is involved in spinning the non -profit as a separate entity.

One of the major obstacles to the transformation is establishing a fair standard for the non -profit, which controls the company under the current structure. Open AEE, a non-governmental organization that is in talks to increase the new capital $ 260bn pre-mani assessment, has no obligation to sell.

According to people with discussion, OpenAI discussed about $ 30 billion evaluation for non -profit entities, OpenAI discussed about $ 30 billion evaluation for non -profit entities. The attornees of the musk have argued that this image should be more and should be called to process a competitive bid.

A higher assessment means a large amount for musk, which will return to the company many times in the first years.