{"id":2443,"date":"2025-02-11T01:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T02:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2025-02-11T03:24:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T03:24:23","slug":"musk-offers-to-buy-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/11\/musk-offers-to-buy-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk offers to buy OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"

CEO Sam Altman said \u2018no thank you\u2019 and proposed purchasing X instead<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Elon Musk, leading a consortium of investors, has made an unsolicited $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, aiming to restore the artificial intelligence company he co-founded to its original mission of developing technology for the benefit of humanity.<\/p>\n

The offer was presented to OpenAI\u2019s board of directors on Monday, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal<\/em>. Musk\u2019s proposal seeks to counter OpenAI\u2019s transition toward a for-profit model.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was,\u201d<\/em> Musk said, according to a statement from his attorney, Marc Toberoff.<\/p>\n

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the offer and mockingly suggested purchasing Musk\u2019s social media platform, X, for $9.74 billion instead. In response, Musk called Altman a \u201cswindler\u201d<\/em> and referred to him as \u201cScam Altman.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Swindler<\/p>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Musk helped co-found OpenAI in 2015, investing approximately $45 million, but left the board in 2018 due to strategic disagreements with Altman. Since then, he has been a vocal critic of OpenAI\u2019s direction, particularly its commercialization efforts and close partnership with Microsoft.<\/p>\n

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OpenAI Founder rules out lawsuit against DeepSeek<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In March 2024, Musk sued<\/a> OpenAI, alleging it had strayed from its founding principles by prioritizing profit over its mission to serve humanity.<\/p>\n

Musk\u2019s attorney said on Monday that if Altman and OpenAI\u2019s board \u201care intent on becoming a fully for-profit corporation, it is vital that the charity be fairly compensated for what its leadership is taking away from it: control over the most transformative technology of our time,\u201d<\/em> according to a statement cited by AP<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The leading U.S. artificial intelligence research organization, OpenAI, faces growing competition from Chinese AI firms, notably DeepSeek. In January 2025, the Hangzhou-based startup unveiled its open-source AI model, DeepSeek-R1, which reportedly matches or surpasses OpenAI\u2019s models in areas such as mathematical reasoning and code generation.<\/p>\n

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Breakthrough Chinese AI app a \u2018wake-up call\u2019 for US \u2013 Trump<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Musk, meanwhile, has been developing his own AI company, xAI, which launched in 2023. The company introduced Grok, a chatbot integrated into X (formerly Twitter), designed to compete with OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT. Musk has positioned xAI as a challenger to OpenAI and Google\u2019s DeepMind, focusing on building AI systems that prioritize truthfulness and transparency.<\/p>\n

To strengthen the United States\u2019 position in the global AI race, President Donald Trump announced the Stargate<\/em> project in January 2025. The initiative, a collaboration between OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, aims to invest up to $500 billion in AI infrastructure over four years. According to recent reports, SoftBank is close to finalizing a $40 billion investment deal, which would value OpenAI at $260 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CEO Sam Altman said \u2018no thank you\u2019 and proposed purchasing X instead Elon Musk, leading a consortium of investors, has made an unsolicited $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, aiming to restore the artificial intelligence company he co-founded to its original mission of developing technology for the benefit of humanity. The offer was presented to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}