On Wednesday, the Openai Board of Directors asked about the logical basis to make a $ 97.4 billion offer from Elon Musk and others to control the prominent artificial intelligence company.
On Monday, investor consortium led by Mr. Musk I was offered to buy The assets of the non -profit organization that controls the company, escalating a dispute for a period of years between Mr. Musk and the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman.
In the court file on Wednesday, the company said that Mr. Musk’s offer contradicts the legal allegations filed by the billionaire in a lawsuit against Openai last year. Openai argued in his file that Mr. Musk said in his prayers should remain assets with non -profit organizations and cannot be transferred to another entity to achieve general gains.
The company mainly accuses Mr. Musk of hypocrisy. In a lawsuit, he said that Openai should be ruled by non -profit organizations. Now, Openai claims, it argues the opposite.
The Openai Council has not officially rejected the offer.
“The lawsuit is not related to those who control Openai. It is related to the misconduct of Sam Taman and Openai,” said Mark Tobrov, Los Angeles lawyer who filed the lawsuit against Ubayy, on behalf of Mr. Musk, in a statement to the New York Times on Wednesday.
In reference to Openai’s efforts to cut himself out of “so -called”, “if the Openai Council” is ready to describe to take a mark “for sale”. Non -profit control. “But, of course, Openai will never do it.”
The offer submitted by Mr. Musk can still hold Mr. Altman’s efforts to separate the company from the non -profit council and collect billions of dollars that Openai needs to build new technologies.
For more than a year, Mr. Tamman and his colleagues were working on A plan to transfer control of the company From non -profit organizations to Openai investors, including Microsoft and the Thrive Capital.
Openai was negotiating A deal to raise funds worth $ 40 billionSoftbank. According to three people, knowing the deal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The structure of the unusual companies of San Francisco has an opening for Mr. Musk to interfere in that plan and make the Openai regeneration more expensive.
In order to separate the non -profit council, Mr. Altman and his colleagues must provide compensation. Openai may pay one -time fee for one time, for example, or give it a minority stake in the company.
Non -profit assets, however, no value has been given. Mr. Musk is trying to appoint one, and it may mean that it may mean that the Openai’s profit arm should spend more to gain independence from old non -profit organizations.
The watch is knocking in Openai to change how it works. Under Openai The last investment roundControl of the company must be transferred away from non -profit organizations in less than two years. Otherwise, its financing will be converted into debt, according to the documents reviewed by the New York Times.
(Times has prosecution Openai and Microsoft, claiming that copyright violation of news content related to artificial intelligence systems. The two companies denied the claims of the case.)
Mr. Musk Awthousian’s move is the latest in a very personal battle with Mr. Altman who started 10 years ago as a partnership. They were part of the group that established Openai as a non -profit organization in 2015, saying they wanted to share their techniques freely with the world.
When Mr. Musk left the organization three years after a battle for control, Mr. Altman tied Openai with a profitable company so that he could raise the huge amounts of money needed to build artificial intelligence technologies.
In late 2023, the non -profit board of directors suddenly launched Mr. Altman, saying that he no longer trusted him in building artificial intelligence in favor of humanity – which was one of the original principles of non -profit organizations.
He returned to the company in just five days and began to accumulate the painting with his allies, while exploring ways to cut off non -profit control. If they cut off non -profit control, Mr. Tamman and his allies believe, Openai will be more attractive to investors.
Before the public’s presentation on Monday, Mr. Musk also moved to prevent changes in the Openai management structure through a lawsuit federal court last year.
