- On Friday, the Openai Board of Directors rejected Elon Musk unanimously to buy the company.
- On Monday, a MUSK investor Group made an unspecified offer of $ 97.4 billion to buy Openai.
- Brett Taylor, Chairman of Openai, called it “MUSK’s last attempt to disable his competitor.”
On Friday, the Openai Board of Directors rejected the non -influential Elon Musk offer to buy the company.
“Openai is not for sale, and the Board of Directors unanimously rejected Mr. Musk’s last attempt to disable his competitor. Any possible reorganization for Openai will enhance a non -profit organization and its mission to ensure AGI of humanity.” The council said, in a statement on Friday, published on X.
On Monday, a MUSK investor Group made an unspecified offer of $ 97.4 billion to buy Openai. The offer immediately obtained strong rejections from CEO Sam German, who said in many general interviews at the Paris AI summit that the company – and its mission to ensure the advantages of artificial intelligence is not for sale.
Germans told Axios: “There were versions of Elon trying, as you know, in one way or another on Openai for a long time, so, well, well, here is the episode of this week.”
In a statement to Business Insider, Mark Tobrov, the lawyer for the investor group, said that Openai’s rejection of the offer “is not surprising, given that Altman and Chairman, Taylor, had already rejected the MUSK offer of $ 97 billion while saying that they have not yet received it.”
“But we were surprised to see the Board of Directors, which has strict credit duties to carefully consider giving in good faith on behalf of the charitable institution, he used the same type of double speaking that is used to testify to the Senate.” . “Of course, they put the assets of the charity (controlling the profit organization) for sale. This is what is going on” reorganization. ” Classic deals with self.
Musk and Altman postponed Openai together years ago, but their relationship was strained after Musk left the company in 2018 and founded his AI project, Xai. Since then, Titans has repeatedly exchanged public balconies about their conflicting views on developing artificial intelligence.
Musk filed a lawsuit against Openai and its executives in March 2024, claiming that the company’s trend in recent years has violated its foundational principles. And withdraw the complaint at a later time. In a separate lawsuit in August, Musk claimed that he was “manipulated” in the postponement of the company.
In a statement on Monday about his proposal to buy Openai, Musk said, “At X.AI, we live in the values that Openai has promised. Safety for good.
Openai representatives did not immediately respond to the comment requests from Business Insider.
