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There is no almost boring moment on the rhythm of artificial intelligence, and today there was no exception: Wall Street Magazine I mentioned this afternoon that a consortium from private sector investors is led by the richest man in the world, Elon Musk has made a multi -institutional offer 97.4 billion dollars To the non -profit Openai Board of Directors to obtain the subsidiary of the company led by the former founder who turned to his competitor, CEO of Openai, Sam Altman.
If we set aside the long and chaotic history between the two men, which has already led to many lawsuits, the MUSK goal of obtaining another company is at the top of the six that he already owns or runs (Spacex, Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink, X, XAI) is He made Openai Open Source, according to the task of the original founder to provide the advantages of artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence (AGI) to everyone.
In a statement submitted by his lawyer to his lawyer magazine. “We will make sure that this happens.”
The acquisition offer is also for Musk, which after its participation in establishing the company and generating it in 2015 besides that Altman and 9 othersI decided that Exit the project in 2018Just to turn into one of the largest general critics and commercial competitors. He founded his Xai in 2023 and builds a huge model for AI Supercluster Training from GPU in Memphis, Teennesse, known as as as as Colosos.
Double scratching amplifiers
However, an attempt to control Openai appears to be an implicit acceptance. Despite all his fast and huge investments in recycling a baked Grok Chatbot competitor in the social network X, the Grok-2 multimedia model and the API program for third-party programs-Musk does not succeed in winning the largest possible number of users as it might He and his assistants love him.
It may also indicate that the Grok-3 model-is said to be in training, and any common artificial accounts A pioneer in industry – He is It may not be advanced or ready As a competition (these days: Deepseek-R1 and the “O” chain “O” from Openai. “)
Altman himself moved to the Musk Social Network X to reject the idea of getting Musk Openai, writing: “No, thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you want,” Another function Calling the “fading process”.
While some Journalists suggested that Musk’s offer It may have an effect complexity The elegant Openai plans to plan the profit arm from the Non-profit holding company-which suggested that the price be less than 40 billion dollars-the truth is that the last Openai financing round is estimated at 157 billion dollars, so both prices are much less than the current crop of the investors who They bought the company for it.
Not possible
However, it is barely not possible that Musk can succeed in this seizure offer. After all, he considered his attempt to assume Twitter (and change the name to X) as well as some in the press – until this happened real, and it can be said that it changed the course of history by promoting more posts from conservatives and free effects and subscribers who pay journalists Those verified in Yore, affecting the 2024 elections and countless global events and individual perceptions/global views.
Which also raises the question, especially in its controversial light A greeting that resembles Nazism to the opening of Trump II Today and general support for Extreme right -wing policy worldwide: If Musk succeeds in seizing Openai, will you continue to use its products (ChatGPT, Sora and Dall-E3, its application programming facades and various models and other services) or turns into another AI model? After all, a number of people and organizations left X to compete for short social publishing platforms Blouse and threads In the wake of the acquisition of musk and general moves to support Trump and right -wing politicians.
I must also hurry to point out that although Musk has promoted the views and political positions that I find personally, the Grok AI model has enabled free and free critical expression more than most competing artificial intelligence models, especially with regard to images – I have been done Create a Altman shape at the top of this post, for example. This is a praiseworthy position in my eyes, and it may indicate that Openai’s acquisition may lead to less control/restricted models, which I support.
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