The Openai Board of Directors has officially rejected Elon Musk’s nearly $ 100bn offer to the manufacturer of what is the world’s most renowned artificial intelligence tool (AI), Chatgpt.
But unwanted offer may not be a failure – at least in terms of musk, experts say.
That’s because the offer could still complicate CEO Sam Altman’s plans to transform Openai from a non -profit controlled entity to a lucrative company.
Musk is “essentially trying to stimulate the trajectory of OpenAi growth,” said Associate Teaching University of Cambridge Johnnie Penn interview with BBC.
Last week, Musk and a consortium of investors including Hollywood superstar gold emanuel ravish A bid 97.4bn $ (78.4bn) for all Openai’s assets.
It was a large sum – but less than $ 157 billion the firm was rated in a round of funding just four months ago, and much lower than $ 300 billion that some think is worth it now.
The complication of all this is of Openai unusual structure which includes a partnership between non -profit and lucrative weapons.
Mr. Altman is understood to want to change itstripping him of his non -profit board.
This includes costs which Mr. Musk seemed to be trying to swell.
“What Musk is trying to do here is to increase the perceived value of the Openai’s nonprofit, so that Openi can pay more to get out of his obligations to not be not profit,” Dr Penn said.
The value of its non -profit assets is not clear. With his offer, Musk was navigating an award, according to the old lecturer of Cornell University, Lutz Finger, who is also the founder and CEO of the beginning of that R2Decide.
“From Musk by setting a price on the nonprofit, he makes the road more expensive to make Altman,” Mr. Finger BBC told. “Very simple.”
Mr. Musk justified his actions by saying that he wants to return Openai – which he founded – on his nonprofit roots and the original development mission of the benefit of mankind.
However, others suggest that he has somewhat less noble motives associated with his company AI XAI and Chatbot Grok, which have received a vague response from the public.
“Musk has lost the train and he somehow. He is behind, and he has made some effort to catch,” Mr. Finger.
Now, says Mr. Finger, Mr. Musk is trying to kneel his most scary competition.
A tense relationship seemed to deteriorate further last week with Mr. Altman shaking Mr.
Mr. Altman was then hit again in an interview with Bloomberg, thinking that Mr. Musk is not “a happy person” and saying his decisions were taken from a “position of insecurity”.
Tit-Tat is also playing in court, where American district judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is considering Mr. Musk’s request for an order that would block Openai from his planned conversion.
He claims to be irreparably damaged without her intervention.
“It is reliable what Mr. Musk is saying is true. We will discover it. He will sit in the attitude,” Gonzalez Rogers said during a hearing session in Musk v altman At the beginning of this month in Oakland, California.
According to Openai’s lawyers, Mr. Musk’s latest offer contradicts his previous claims that Openai’s assets cannot be transferred away for “private benefits”.
“[O]Court UT, those limitations apparently do not apply, as long as Musk and its allies are buyers, “their short response COUNTRY.
Some observers say making a deal never seemed to be his purpose.
“I think he is just trying to create noise and news and plot,” says Karl Freund, founder and main analyst in Cambrian-Ai.
But in addition to causing problems for his old rival, this strategy can cause stable damage to Mr. Musk’s own reputation.
“He is great. He creates extraordinary companies that are doing extraordinary things. But his personal agenda is making people question his motives,” Mr. Freund.