Summary

Elon Musk and a group of investors have offered $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, challenging CEO Sam Altman and the company’s shift toward a for-profit model.

The bid, backed by Musk’s xAI and other investors, claims to return OpenAI to its original open-source mission. Altman rejected the offer on X, joking that OpenAI would buy Twitter for $9.74 billion.

Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022 for $44 billion and renamed it X, replied, “Swindler.”

OpenAI argues restructuring is necessary for growth, targeting completion by 2026.

  • @[email protected]
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    3616 hours ago

    They will absolutely NOT return it to its open source mission. Why bother lying? This is the least believable group to even try making that statement

    • @breadsmasher
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      1716 hours ago

      why bother lying

      because his supporters are morons

      • Flying Squid
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        39 hours ago

        Also, they don’t know how to tell the truth.

    • @[email protected]
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      615 hours ago

      I really wish journalists would write, for example, “they say that they want to return it to the mission” rather than “they want to”. They do this with Trump all the time. (“he believes tariffs are a powerful tool” - the fuck he does)

      • @[email protected]
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        314 hours ago

        (“he believes tariffs are a powerful tool” - the fuck he does)

        It’s plausible that he does believe it given how dumb he is.

    • enkers
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      316 hours ago

      Let’s be real, they never had an open source mission to begin with, they just wanted to market themselves as the good guy while they slurp up market share. Basically like google with “don’t be evil”.

      But yeah, the Muskrat certainly doesn’t have any good intentions either.

      • @[email protected]
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        115 hours ago

        There’s two halves of the company which are currently buying for control with one another

  • Pistcow
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    1516 hours ago

    Hmmm seem to be missing 100 billion from the Treasury…

  • @Veedem
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    1216 hours ago

    It would be a real shame if someone were to just punch Musk right in the face. A real shame.

    • @cmbabul
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      816 hours ago

      Be even more of a shame if they kept doing it for over an hour. A real shame that would be

  • Phoenixz
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    414 hours ago

    Any investor stupid enough to put money into anything musk says will lose it all and I will point and laugh

  • @RedWeasel
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    317 hours ago

    If they can get $100 Billion, they sure as hell need to fulfill the fiduciary duty and accept.