Musk’s $97.4 billion bid for Openai aims to “slow down competitors,” says Sam Altman

Paris – Elon Musk The company’s CEO Sam Altman aims to “slow down competitors” to CNBC on Tuesday when the group of investors he led proposed a $97.4 billion proposal for Openai’s control .

The Openai Chief asked how seriously he takes Mask’s bid, which Altman declined in a previous X social media post.

“I think it’s about slowing down the competitors and catching up with him, but I really don’t know… to the extent that someone does,” Altman said in a question from another reporter about the AI ​​Action Summit bystanders. I added in response to this. In Paris.

CNBC contacted Toberoff, Tesla and X for comments.

Elon Musk CNBC is heading a group of investors offering to buy Openai management for $97.4 billion, confirmed Monday. The offer is for nonprofits that oversee the artificial intelligence startups behind ChatGPT.

“Now is the time for the opening to return to its once-focused power that it once was open source,” Musk’s lawyer Mark Toberov added that he submitted the offer on Monday.

Musk has his own AI company called Xai behind the chatbot Grok.

-CNBC’s Ari Levy and Lora Kolodny contributed to this report.

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