Elon Musk wants to buy OpenAI

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Elon Musk Offers to Buy OpenAI for $97.4 Billion in Unsolicited Bid: Report

The billionaire oligarch says he wants OpenAI to become a "safety-focused force for good."

gizmodo.com

Elon Musk and a consortium of investors have made an unsolicited bid of $97.4 billion for a controlling interest in the non-profit that operates OpenAI, according to a new report from the Wall Street Journal.

Musk and his attorney did not immediately respond to questions from Gizmodo on Monday but told the Wall Street Journal that, “It’s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was. We will make sure that happens.”

The move may throw a wrench in plans by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to formally make OpenAI a for-profit entity. To say that Musk and Altman are enemies feels like a bit of an understatement at this point. The two men founded OpenAI together back in 2015 but Musk was pushed out in 2019 after he reportedly tried to take control of the AI company. And the two men have been in litigation ever since their feud spilled out in public over recent years.

When did he have time to throw this together?

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Literally nothing Elon Musk is involved in is a force for good. He and Sam Altman are basically interchangeable.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

Literally nothing Elon Musk is involved in is a force for good. He and Sam Altman are basically interchangeable.

Not defending Sam, but do feel like Elon is the greater evil here.

 

[Noodles]

Whats the matter Musk, Grok not working out?

 

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Sam Altman: OpenAI is not for sale, even for Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer

Altman responds with pithy offer to buy Twitter for $9.74 billion.

arstechnica.com

On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly rejected an unsolicited Elon Musk-led attempt to purchase OpenAI for $97.4 billion. The Wall Street Journal reports that the offer was backed by Musk's own company, xAI, in addition to several investors Musk's other businesses.

After the Wall Street Journal broke news of the purchase offer Monday afternoon, Altman shifted the offer's decimal point in a joke publicly posted on X, saying, "no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want."

Love the counter offer for Twitter.

 

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Whats the matter Musk, Grok not working out?

Apparently, it is. Eh...

New Grok 3 release tops LLM leaderboards despite Musk-approved “based” opinions

xAI shows off new chatbot that injects a dose of Musk-flavored opinion.

arstechnica.com

On Monday, Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, released Grok 3, a new AI model family set to power chatbot features on the social network X. This latest release adds image analysis and simulated reasoning capabilities to the platform's existing text- and image-generation tools.

Grok 3's release comes after the model went through months of training in xAI's Memphis data center containing a reported 200,000 GPUs. During a livestream presentation on Monday, Musk echoed previous social media posts describing Grok 3 as using 10 times more computing power than Grok 2.

Sucking down those amps (or do I mean watts?).