The conflict between Elon Musk and his rival Sam Altman gained a new dimension with the rejection of an investment consortium of an investment consortium led by the OpenAI board of directors on Friday by Tesla CEO.
“OpenAI is not for sale”
OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor, said in a statement on Friday, “OpenAI is not for sale and the board of directors, Mr. Musk’s last attempt to disrupt the competition unanimously rejected,” he said.
San Francisco -based OpenAI, a non -profit initiative behind Chatgpt, is trying to be a profit. It was also founded by Altman, CEO.
“OpenAI’s reorganization of OpenAI will strengthen our non -profit -free organization and AGI’s mission to benefit all humanity,” Taylor said on Friday.
Musk sued OpenAI last year
Musk, one of the early investors in OpenAI, filed a lawsuit against the non -profit organization last year and claimed that the organization had moved away from the mission of providing benefits to humanity.
The CEO of the CEO of SpaceX also leads to an artificial intelligence attempt called XAI, which compete with OpenAI.
In 2022, Musk acquired the social media company Twitter for $ 44 billion and changed his name to X.
An investment consortium led by Musk announced the offer to purchase OpenAI on Monday.
Lawyer Marc Taberoff, who represented investors on Monday, said, “Sam Altman and the current OpenAI Inc. The Board of Directors intends to be a company that is completely profitable, it is vital to be compensated for what it takes by the leadership of the aid organization: the control over the most transformative technology of our time,” he said.
“It is time for OpenaI to return to a power -oriented power as it was once, as OpenaI once had once.” he said.
Altman, X, “No thanks, but if you want to buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion,” he replied.
