Openai CEO Sam Altman calls Musk’s bid to “slow us down” attempt

In the interview Openai CEO Sam Altman rejected Elon Musk’s at the AI ​​Action Summit in Paris on Tuesday Unsolicited $97.4 billion bid for Openai’s nonprofit “An attempt to slow down (Openai) is down.”

“(Musk) is clearly a competitor.” Altman said. “He’s raising a lot of money for (his AI company) Xai and they’re trying to compete with us from a technical standpoint.”

Altman said, “I think everything (of Musk) comes from an uncertainty position (…) I don’t think he’s a happy person.”

Altman shot down Musk’s offer to Openai’s nonprofit almost immediately in a public post Monday. We formally reject the bid. But that may not happen anytime soon. In a Tuesday interviewOpenai’s board member Larry Summers said “we have not received any kind of formal communication (about bids) other than media coverage.”