Would you stop using Openai if Elon Musk took it care?

There is almost never a boring moment in the AI ​​rhythm, and today it was no exception: The Wall Street Journal This afternoon he informed that a consortium of private investors led by the richest man in the world, the multicármaco that owned Elon Musk, had presented an offer of $ 97.4 billion For the Non -Profit Board of Directors of OpenAI to acquire the company for profit purposes of the company led by the former co -founder converted into a rival, the CEO of Operai, Sam Altman.

Leaving aside the long and messy story between the two men, which has already resulted in several demands, Musk’s declared objective to want XAI) is to open OpenAi source, according to its original founding mission statement to deliver the benefits of AI and artificial general intelligence (AGI) for all.

“It’s time for Operai Diary. “We will make sure that happens.”

The acquisition offer is also personal for Musk, who after co -confunding and financing the company in 2015 together with Altman and another 9decided Leave the company in 2018only to become one of his greatest public critics and business rivals. He founded his own XAI startup in 2023 and is building a massive training model of AI for a supercluster of graphics processing units (GPU) in Memphis, Tennessee, known as Colossus.

The double musk robe

However, the commitment to control OpenAi would seem to be a tacit admission. Despite all its quick and considerable investment to turn a competitor: the rival Grok Chatbot was baked in the social network X, and the application programming interface and multimodal model Grok-2 underlying for third-party software developers. Musk is not successful to win as many users as his collaborators will like.

I would also suggest that the Grok-3 model, according to reports, in training, and what accounts of pseudonym rumors in X have promoted as Industry leader – is Maybe not so advanced or ready As the competition (namely, these days: Deepseek-R1 and the series of “or” OpenAi models.

Altman himself turned to the social network X of Musk to rule out the idea that Musk acquired OpenAi, writing“No, thanks, but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you wish”, to which Musk responded with Another publication Calling Altman “Scam Altman.”

While some Journalists have suggested that Musk’s offer can have the effect of complicated Openai’s ordered plans to split the outstanding arm of the company hold He valued it at $ 157 billion, so both prices are ultimately, much lower than the current investor harvest has bought from the company.

Not out of discussion

However, it is hardly out of discussion that Musk could succeed with this acquisition offer. After all, his commitment to take care of Twitter (and finally changing the name to x) was also considered a long shot by some in the press, until it really happened, and possibly changed the course of the story by promoting more Publications of conservatives and conservatives and free and subscriber influencers who pay on the verified journalists of yesteryear, influencing the 2024 elections and an innumerable other global events and individual perceptions/worldviews.

Who also raises the question, especially in the light of his controversial Greetings similar to Trump’s second inauguration Day and general support for Extreme right policy worldwide: If Musk manages to take care of OpenAI, would he continue using his products (Chatgpt, Sora, Dall-E 3, his API and other models and services) or change to another provider of AI models? After all, several people and organizations left X for competing short social publication platforms Bluesky and threads Following the acquisition of Musk and the general movements to support Trump and the extreme right politicians.

I should also rush to point out that, although Musk has promoted points of view and political positions that I personally find detestable, its Grok AI model has allowed a much more free and free expression freely than most other competitors’ models, Especially regarding the generation of images, it is how I created Altman’s image at the top of this publication, for example. This is a laudable position in my eyes, and I could indicate that an Openai acquisition would lead to less censored/restricted models, which support.

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