OpenAI insists it is not for sale, and has officially rejected billionaire Elon Musk's nearly $100 billion acquisition offer.
Billionaire Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (right) have been at odds with each other for years - Photo: AFP
On February 14 (US time), OpenAI's board of directors rejected a $97.4 billion offer from billionaire Elon Musk, affirming that the start-up is not for sale and any future offers related to this issue are disingenuous.
Billionaire Musk offered to buy the company that owns ChatGPT, because he was concerned that this start-up would become a for-profit company, when it recently attracted more capital and was a leader in the global artificial intelligence (AI) industry.
“OpenAI is not for sale, and the board unanimously rejected Mr Musk’s latest attempt to block its competitor.
Any restructuring of OpenAI would reinforce its nonprofit nature and its mission to ensure artificial general intelligence (AGI) benefits humanity,” OpenAI quoted President Bret Taylor as saying in a statement posted on X.
Last weekend, CEO Sam Altman also confirmed to Axios that OpenAI is not for sale. Altman had previously rejected the offer by replying “no thanks” on X, prompting Musk to call him a “fraud.”
In a court filing on February 12, Musk’s lawyers said the consortium, which includes the billionaire’s xAI startup, would withdraw its offer to buy OpenAI’s nonprofit arm if the company scraps its plans to become a for-profit company.
Billionaire Musk co-founded OpenAI with Mr. Altman, but later left.
After Musk left the start-up in 2019, OpenAI established a for-profit arm that has attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in funding, according to Reuters, prompting accusations from the billionaire that OpenAI has violated its original mission by putting profit above the public interest.
In August 2024, Mr. Musk sued CEO Altman, OpenAI, and the biggest supporter of this start-up, billionaire Bill Gates' giant Microsoft.
Source: https://tuoitre.vn/openai-chinh-thuc-tu-choi-ban-minh-cho-ti-phu-elon-musk-20250215075544238.htm
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