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Two of the most famous technology titans of the Silicon Valley, Elon Musk and his former protégé Altman, are in the middle of a very public feud for the future of Openai, the company behind the revolutionary Chatgpt.
Musk – the most rich man and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX – has filed numerous lawsuits in the last year to Stop Altman to restructure Openai From a hybrid non -profit purpose in a company with profit.
Earlier this week, Musk raised the bets, offering to buy a non -profit target for $ 97.4 billion to maintain the original mission of the AI research lab – guarantees that “artificial general intelligence is beneficial for all humanity.”
Musk's proposal was quickly rejected by Altman.
In the last development, Musk said through his lawyers on Wednesday that he would refuse his offer if Openai remains a non -profit purpose, which will prevent the company from gaining access to potentially billions of dollars funding.
Against the backdrop of their legal Stoush, the two men publicly traded Barbie attacking the character of each other.
So, how did things turn into so fierce between two of the most famous Silicon Valley Executive Directors?
What is the origin of the feud according to Openai?
53 -year -old Musk and Altman, 39 -year -old, were once colleagues.
The two co -founder of OPENAI in 2015, along with several other prominent figures in artificial intelligence studies. Musk and Altman were the first co -chair of the company.
At that time, Musk, as the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, was a much more famous figure in the Silicon Valley.
Openai started as a non -profit purpose, with the stated mission focused on research and safety instead of making money.
According to the Openai account, the problems began to appear in 2017 when it became clear that it would need much more computing power and hundreds of millions of dollars funding if he hoped to create an artificial common intelligence.
According to internal emails shared by Openai on his website, Musk claims that he wanted to move on to a profit organization, and he himself is the CEO. As disagreement with regard to the future of the company escalates, it is said that Musk has detained revenge funding.
Musk left the company in 2018, according to Openai, but initially still supported its work. He continued to acquire Twitter in 2022 and founded his own AI companyXAI, in 2023
In the years after the departure of Musk, Openai has undergone major changes. In 2019, Openai set up a subsidiary with a profit to help raise funds, turning the company into something like a non-profit purpose-corporate hybrid.
Three years later, in 2022, the company became the name of a household, along with Altman, after the emergence of the innovative Chatgpt.
What is the origin of the feud according to Musk?
The tension between Musk and Altman began to escalate again in 2023, when Microsoft agreed to invest $ 10 billion in Openai, at the top of $ 3 billion in the wider investment.
Musk did not respond to Al Jazeera's request for comment, but his views on Openai are shared in legal documents.
Musk claimed in a lawsuit last year that Openai became a Microsoft subsidiary, calling the deal a misconception about Shakespeare's proportions and an offer from Altman to “win” a generative AI.
Some of Musk's concerns were more specially shared by the United States and European regulators, which also started antitrust investigations into the deal.
Musk expanded its case in November, arguing that the two companies monopolize the market in generative AI.
He claims that Altman told investors not to support XAI and other rivals of Musk during the last round of Openai funds and said that the Microsoft and OpenAi relationship should be removed in order to “keep what what is left of the non -profit character of Openai, free from self -division. “
What did Musk and Altman say about each other?
The two executives have downloaded strikes online, in the media and in court documents. Earlier this week, the couple was publicly confronted with X after Musk's proposal to buy the company.
“No thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you want,” Altman wrote, using the previous name of X.
“Swindler,” Musk wrote in response.
Continuing to the media in the media, Altman said in an interview on Tuesday that his former mentor is motivated by his own demons – not concern about the future of the discovered AI – and operates “from a position of uncertainty.”
“I feel bad for the man,” Altman told Bloomberg TV in Paris Ai Ection SummitS
“I think it's to slow down a competitor and catch up with his thing, but I don't really know … to the extent that someone does,” he told Musk and his rival company XAI.
Musk, for his part, presented Altman as a greedy and “unscrupulous” man in his court cases against Openai.
In the court reports in August, Musk's lawyers cited Altman's reign on the discovered AI as “hot air philanthropy … long -standing” and “Tale of a textbook on altruism against greed”.
Musk's attorneys also claimed that Altman and other members of Openai “deliberately court and mislead Musk by dealing with Musk's humanitarian concern about the existential dangers caused by artificial intelligence.”
Why does Openai want to go alone?
The Altman and Openai Council claim that the company should be restructured to acquire its next round of SoftBank funding, a Japanese multinational, which recently estimated the company of $ 260 billion.
Although not unheard of by the company to move from non-profit to a company with profit-lifeline in the health sector- The scale of Openai's endeavor It is highlighting, said Rose Chan Louis, CEO of the founders of the Center for Philanthropy and Non -Profan Organizations in Lowell Milken.
According to the proposed restructuring of OPENAI, the subsidiary with a profit will offset the non-profit organization for its assets, creating a new company with profit-but Musk's offer of $ 97.4 billion has put the deal, she said.
“If the transformation is going through, the next challenge is to determine what amount of compensation should receive a non -profit purpose. This must be a fair market value. Previously, Openai was considering something in the $ 30-40 billion range, “Chan Louis told Al Jazeera.
“The supply of Elon Musk causes the adequacy of this number. The non -profit council will need to “consider” the offer, and Openai will have to explain – to the non -profit council, as well as to Delaware and California General Lawyers – why Musk's offer is not better for the non -profit purpose than this, Which Openai wants to offer, ”she said.
What does Openai say about Musk's offer?
In addition to the fact that Altman exchanged Barbs with Musk Online and in the media, Openai has filed a proposal to reject Musk's case.
In court, she denied allegations that she was trying to block the financing of other start -ups and asked Musk's intentions.
In legal documents shared with Al Jazeera, Altman's lawyer Jordan ET said that Musk's “concerns about the future of Openai” do not apply as long as Musk and his allies are buyers. “
“Musk would transfer him all his assets, for his economic benefit and that of his competitive business with AI and hand -selected private investors,” ETH said, according to the submission.
