After a noisy lawsuit, the world's richest billionaire Elon Musk offered to buy OpenAI for nearly $100 billion to 'benefit humanity'. OpenAI boss Sam Altman responded with sarcasm, poking fun at the Tesla boss's pain.
The race in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Silicon Valley is just as hot as the technology war between the US and China after the "earthquake" of DeepSeek. The world's richest billionaire Elon Musk has just suddenly asked to buy OpenAI (owner of the famous chatbot platform ChatGPT) for 97.4 billion USD.
The offer was made on Monday (February 10) by a consortium led by Elon Musk, which includes the South African billionaire's xAI company and a host of other big names, including venture capital Valor Equity Partners, Hollywood mogul Ari Emanuel and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale's 8VC firm.
Billionaire Elon Musk said the deal aims to return OpenAI to an open source platform and benefit humanity.
The purchase proposal came after Elon Musk and co-founder - former CEO of OpenAI - Sam Altman (1985) had a fierce argument over the $500 billion AI project Stargate initiated by US President Donald Trump.
Elon Musk claims the project lacks financial resources, while Sam Altman says Musk is criticizing for not benefiting.
The project aims to build advanced AI infrastructure in the US, run by OpenAI, with an initial investment of $100 billion and expected to increase to $500 billion within four years.
SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX are the initial funders for the project, along with a number of technology partners such as ARM, Microsoft, Nvidia, etc. Elon Musk is not involved in Stargate.
Elon Musk's announcement of buying OpenAI comes amid a rocky relationship between the billionaire and OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman. Elon Musk was one of OpenAI's co-founders and early investors, but left after a power struggle. Musk has since created his own company, xAI, to compete directly with Altman's company.
In August 2024, Elon Musk filed a lawsuit against Altman in federal court, alleging that he was deceived by Sam Altman into co-founding OpenAI (a company he co-founded in 2015). Musk accused OpenAI and CEO Altman of putting commercial interests above the public interest.
Responding to the OpenAI acquisition offer, Sam Altman fired back with a sarcastic tweet: "No thanks, but we'll buy Twitter (now X) for $9.74 billion if you want."
Social network Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk for $44 billion in 2022 and renamed X. Currently, X's capitalization is only about $8 billion.
Elon Musk wants to buy OpenAI at a time when CEO Sam Altman is juggling several major deals, including the $500 billion Stargate project.
According to Elon Musk, it's time for OpenAI to return to being an open source platform, focused on safety for the benefit of humanity.
Previously, the technology world was heated at the beginning of the new year of At Ty when China's DeepSeek launched the Deep Seek R1 model and was considered a new "earthquake" in the AI village, likened to the "Sputnik moment".
Soon after, Alibaba also shook up the global AI market with Alibaba Qwen. Two Chinese AI models have “blown away” trillions of dollars in capitalization of American corporations in the past two weeks.
DeepSeek is built on open source code, with very low investment costs, only a fraction of those of American AI technology giants. At the same time, it allows global users to customize and extend features. DeepSeek not only accelerates the spread but also puts pressure on large companies to consider their monopoly strategy.
Elon Musk's offer also complicates OpenAI's plans to transition to a for-profit model.
The DeepSeek earthquake shows that countries and companies without resource advantages can still compete in the AI market. It is also a warning to large companies that rely on financial strength and monopolistic technology. DeepSeek opens up opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses to access AI technology at a lower cost.
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