The OpenAi Board of Directors has “even” rejected the bid of billionaire Elon Musk to buy the non -profit organization that effectively rules Openai, the company said on Friday.
To one statement Commonly through OpenAi’s press account on X, Bret Taylor, chairman of the Board of Directors, called on Musk’s offer “an attempt to disrupt his competition”.
“Openai is not for sale and the Board of Directors unanimously rejected Mr Musk’s latest attempt to disrupt his competition,” Taylor said. “Any possible reorganization of OpenAi will enhance our non -profit and its mission to secure [artificial general intelligence] It benefits all humanity. ”
The New York Times referenced that Openai also sent a letter to Musk’s lawyer Marc Toberoff, saying that the offer “was not in his interest [OpenAI’s] shipment.”
On Monday, Musk, AI’s company, XAI, and a group of investors offered to buy Openai’s non -profit organization for $ 97.4 billion. Openai Sam Altman’s chief executive and the company’s Board of Directors quickly – but not formally – rejected the unwanted proposal. To one statementAndy Nussbaum, the adviser representing the Openai Board of Directors, stated that Musk’s offer “does not set value for [OpenAI’s] non -profit “and that the non -profit organization is” not for sale “.
Musk, co -founder of Openai, suffered a lawsuit against the company and Altman claiming that Openai was involved in anti -tantamine behavior and fraud, including offenses.
Openai was founded as a non-profit organization before being transferred to a “capped-profit” structure in 2019. . Openai is now in the restructuring process-this time in a traditional profit company, namely a public benefit company. But Musk, through education, seeks to impose conversion.
In a court deposit on Wednesday, Musk lawyers said the billionaire will withdraw his offer if the Openai Council “Preserve[s] The mission of charity “and stops the conversion of Openai to a profit. In a Archives earlier on the same dayLawyers for Openai have called on Musk’s move to take control of the company “An inappropriate bid for a competitor” and a contradiction of his position to the court that the transfer of starting assets through restructuring would violate his mission as Charity trust.
Musk allies and Altman have negotiated bumps over the offer this week. In An interview podcast On Thursday, Ari Emanuel, one of the supporters of Musk’s offer for Openai Nonprofit, called Altman as a “fake” who “trying to get away from cheating on charity and his initial mission.” Altman described Musk’s offer as “an attempt to slow down [OpenAI] Below, “and said that Musk’s life is” from a position of insecurity “.
