Do you stop using Openai if Elon Musk seizes it?

There is no almost boring moment on the rhythm of artificial intelligence, and today there was no exception: Wall Street Magazine I mentioned this afternoon that a consortium from private sector investors is led by the richest man in the world, Elon Musk has made a multi -institutional offer 97.4 billion dollars To the non -profit Openai Board to obtain the company’s profit, led by the former founder who turned into a competitor, turned into competition, Openai CEO Sam Al -Tamman.

If we set aside the long and chaotic history between the two men, which has already led to many lawsuits, the MUSK goal of obtaining another company is at the top of the six that he already owns or runs (Spacex, Tesla, Starlink, Neuralink, X, XAI) is make Openai Open source, according to the mission statement of the original founder to provide the advantages of artificial intelligence and artificial general intelligence (AGI) to everyone.

In a statement submitted by his lawyer to his lawyer magazine. “We will make sure that this happens.”

The acquisition offer is also for Musk, which after its participation in establishing the company and generating it in 2015 besides that Altman and 9 othersI decided that Exit the project in 2018Just to turn into one of the largest general critics and commercial competitors. Founded his property Xai starting in 2023 It builds a huge model of artificial intelligence from GPU in Memphis, Tenness Colosos.

Double scratching amplifiers

After trying to control Openai It seems that acceptance is implicit. Despite all his fast and huge investments in recycling a baked Grok Chatbot competitor in the social network X, the Grok-2 multimedia model and the API program for third-party programs-Musk does not succeed in winning the largest possible number of users as it might He and his assistants love him.

It may also indicate that the Grok-3 model-is said to be in training, and any common artificial accounts A pioneer in industry – He is It may not be advanced or ready As a competition (these days: Deepseek-R1 and the “O” chain “O” from Openai. “)

Altman himself moved to the Musk Social Network X to reject the idea of ​​getting Musk Openai, writing: “No, thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you want,” Another function Calling the “fading process”.

While some Journalists suggested that Musk’s offer It may have an effect complexity The elegant Openai plans to overcome the profit arm of the non-profit holding company-which suggested that the price be less than $ 40 billion-the truth is that Openai Last Finance round Its value is estimated at $ 157 billion, and therefore both prices are much lower than the current crop of investors who bought the company for.

Not possible

However, it is barely not possible that Musk can succeed in this seizure offer. After all, his attempt to take over Twitter (and change the name to X) was also considered a long period by some in the press – until this happened in real, and it can be said that it changed the course of history by promoting more posts from conservatives and influences Free and subscribers who push journalists who have been verified in Yore, affecting the 2024 elections and countless global events and individual perceptions/global views.

Which also raises the question, especially in its controversial light A greeting that resembles Nazism to the opening of Trump II Today and general support for Extreme right -wing policy worldwide: If Musk succeeds in seizing Openai, will you continue to use its products (ChatGPT, Sora and Dall-E3, its application programming facades and various models and other services) or turns into another AI model? After all, a number of people and organizations left X to compete for short social publishing platforms Blouse and threads In the wake of the acquisition of musk and general moves to support Trump and right -wing politicians.

I must also hurry to point out that although Musk has promoted the views and political positions that I find personally, the Grok AI model has enabled free and free critical expression more than most competing artificial intelligence models, especially with regard to images – I have been done Create an altman shape at the top of this post, for example. This is a praiseworthy position in my eyes, and it may indicate that Openai’s acquisition may lead to less control/restricted models, which I support.

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