Washington: The Elon Musk technological billionaire would have offered $ 97.4 billion to acquire the non -profit organization behind Openai, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Development comes from months after the billionaire continued the startup of artificial intelligence to prevent it from moving on to a for -profit business.
Musk’s offer could increase long -standing tensions between him and the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, on the future of the startup at the heart of a boom in generative AI technology.
The two are already involved in an in progress trial. Musk criticized an enormous project led by OpenAI of $ 500 billion called Stargate announced with a big fanfare in the White House just after President Donald Trump returned in office, suggesting that the investors involved lacked the financing of the project.
Musk’s lawyer Marc Toberoff said that he had submitted the candidacy for the board of directors of Openai on Monday, according to the report.
“It’s time for Openai to return to open source force and security focused on good,” Wsj Musk city as saying in a press release provided by Toberoff. “We will make sure it happens.”
Microsoft Openai, Musk, Toberoff and Openai did not immediately respond to Reuters comment requests.
The offer is supported by the company of AI of Musk Xai, which could merge with Openai after an agreement, the Wsj reported.
Musk co -founded Openai with Altman in 2015, but left before taking off the company. He founded the startup of the competitor XAI in 2023.
OPENAI is now trying to move to a lucrative goal from a non -profit entity, which, according to her, is necessary to secure the capital necessary to develop the best models of artificial intelligence.
Musk’s trial against Openai and Altman said that the founders were originally approached to finance a non -profit organization focused on the development of AI for the benefit of humanity, but that it was now focused on getting money.