Sam Altman fires back at Elon Musk: ‘I don’t think he’s a happy person. I feel for him’
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rejected a potentially seismic deal that could shape the future of artificial intelligence, telling the Elon Musk-led group of investors that the ChatGPT maker is not for sale.
The battle for the future of AI just got extremely expensive and deeply personal. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke out against rival Elon Musk a day after rejecting a potentially seismic deal that could shape the future of artificial intelligence. He told the Elon Musk-led group of investors that the ChatGPT maker is not for sale — despite a massive offer to buy his company. “Elon tries all sorts of things for a long time. This is the latest — you know, this week’s episode,” Altman told Bloomberg TV in an interview at the Paris AI Action Summit Tuesday. “I think he’s probably just trying to slow us down.” Musk announced Monday he is leading a group of investors who have offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion. The OpenAI board will have to consider the massive offer, but it’s unclear whether it will seriously entertain it if it believes Musk will divert from the company’s mission. Musk, an OpenAI cofounder who eventually left the company, has long feuded with Altman and has filed a number of legal complaints against OpenAI and Altman, claiming that the AI company and its leadership have misrepresented OpenAI as a philanthropy. OpenAI is operated by a nonprofit organization that controls an entity called OpenAI LP, a for-profit company that exists within the larger company’s structure. That for-profit company took OpenAI from effectively worthless to a valuation of around $100 billion in just a few years — and Altman is largely credited as the mastermind of that plan and the key to the company’s success.
In a high-stakes bid that could reshape the future of artificial intelligence, Elon Musk is leading a group of investors that have offered to buy OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, for $97.4 billion.
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