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Elon Musk launched an offer of $ 97.4 billion to take control of Operai. The Wall Street Journal He informed that a group of investors led by the XAI of Musk presented an unplayed offer to the company's board of directors on Monday. The group wants to buy the non -profit organization that controls Openai's profit arm.
When comments were asked, an Openai spokesman told Engadget to a <a target="_blank" href="https://x.com/sama/status/1889059531625464090″>x publication of CEO Sam Altman. “No thanks, but we will buy twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you wish,” Altman wrote on the social networks that Musk possesses.
On Friday, Openai's board of directors officially rejected Musk's offer. “Operai is not on sale, and the Board has unanimously rejected the last attempt of Mr. Musk to interrupt its competition,” said the company in a response attributed to Bret Taylor, the president of the Board of Directors of Operai. “Any possible reorganization of OpenAI will strengthen our non -profit organization and its mission to ensure that Agi benefits all humanity.”
Taylor, by the way, was the president of the twitter Board before Musk bought the social media platform for $ 44 billion in 2022.
“Operai is not on sale, and the Board has unanimously rejected the last attempt of Mr. Musk to interrupt its competition. Any potential reorganization of OpenAI will strengthen our non -profit organization and its mission to ensure that AGI benefits the entire humanity”.
—Bret Taylor, chair, on behalf of …
– Again Newsroom (@openainewsroom) <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/OpenAINewsroom/status/1890513865214980162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>February 14, 2025
“It's time for Operai to return to the open source force and safety focused forever,” Musk said in a state The newspaper. “We will make sure that happens.”
It is difficult to say how serious this offer of Musk and what possibilities, if you have any, you have to succeed. Operai is not a traditional company, and the non -profit structure Sam Altman and others in the company want to move away from May, in fact, protects it from Musk's offer. If it were a profit company with the actions that are quoted in the stock market, Musk's offer would probably trigger what is known in corporate law as a moment of Revlon, where, under certain circumstances, the company's board of directors would be seen Forced to sell to the highest bidder to maximize the profits of the shareholders.
Update 02/14 4:34 pm et: Aggregate response of the Board of Directors of OpenAI.
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