A group of inversones, at the head of which is Elon Musk, has made An offer of 97.4 billion dollars to buy the non -profit organization (Nonprofit) that OpenAi controls. We have a new soap opera in sight, but this time the story has a lot of crumb.
Altman and Musk, confronted. Sam Altman published a message in x mocking the offer: “No thanks but we will buy Twitter for 9,740 million dollars if you want,” making it clear that for them Twitter (x) has very little value. Musk in turn answered that message In X calling Altman “scammer.”
How much OpenAi is worth? A few months ago Openai completed a colossal financing round of 6,600 million dollars. According to experts, that made the company’s valuation grow then Up to 157,000 million dollars. But maybe that is not the question, as we will see later.
And SoftBank wants to invest a mockery. In recent days Data have appeared according to which softbank would invest A unusual 40,000 million dollars In Openai, which would fire the valuation of the company even more, up to 260,000 million dollars. Musk’s offer therefore seems low.
Probable objective: complicate Altman’s life. It does not seem therefore probable that the offer progresses, but analysts say that the reason is another. Sam Altman is trying to have Openai ceases to be a nonprofit to be a conventional for profit courage (Forprofit), But that transition is complex.
A complex structure. To “separate” from the nonprofit part, Altman and his team must compensate for the nonprofit agency that controls it compensation, or giving a minority participation in the company. As they point out In The New York TimesOpenAI has more than 2,000 employees, but the NGO that controls it has only two employees and 22 million dollars of cash. What Musk wants is precisely to buy the NGO to have legal control over OpenAI that this nonprofit agency exercises right now.
How much is the Nonprofit? That can be the key question. This body has not been given an assessment although some They estimate the value of about 40,000 million dollars. That is precisely what Elon Musk wants to force to do with this offer. The purchase proposal could force the part Forprofit of Openai to spend more to achieve its independence from the Nonprofit and complete that desired transition by Sam Altman.
An offer with a lot. Analysts like Sheel Mohnot indicate that OpenAI should give the nonprofit a 25% participation to ced Nonprofit It would be approximately 65,000 million. Again, much less than what Musk offers, which can complicate things to Altman when establishing the fair Market Value (FMV, fair market assessment) of the Nonprofit.
War for AI. After Donald Trump’s power in January, the re -elected president of the United States supported the Stargate project To invest 500,000 million dollars in multiple data centers for AI in the country. Trump described the initiative as “the largest infrastructure project in history, from afar.” Openai and Softbank are the main value of such an initiative, which by the way, Musk criticized. That may have been a small blow to the now almost idyllic relationship between Trump and Musk.
And war between Musk and Altman. Elon Musk sued Altman and Openai In August 2024, and for a long time he tries to compete with OpenAi through his startup XAI. The tycoon has already completed investment rounds that value their startup at 50,000 million dollars (more than Ford), and has a data center and a Gigantic Supercomputer, Colossus. The tension between Alman and Musk comes from afar: both are co -founders of OpenAi, but Musk got too soon.
And meanwhile, where is Grok 3? The offer contrasts with a situation in which Xai, despite all its resources, does not seem to advance to the rhythm that its US competitors or China. The output of Deepseek R1 It has caused a new impulse in the market, especially in the reasoning models, but in Xai they seem to work in Grok 3, an evolution of their traditional chatbot. There is no news about whether they have a Deepseek R1 competitor and OPENAI O1but not if they are working on their own alternatives to AI agents as Operatorfrom OpenAi.
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