Elon Musk, CEO of Meta Mark Zuckerberg, requested to join Xai BID to buy Openai

Elon MuskHe asked the richest person in the world Dead CEO Mark Zuckerberg The court files revealed on Thursday that to help him finance the Openai acquisition of $ 97.4 billion in early 2025.

Deposit is part of a legal issue between Musk and Openai that started last year. The case is advancing in a federal court in North California, and the judge recently said that Openai can move forward with counter -claims against Musk, who co -founded Openai as non -profit with Sam Altman and others in 2015.

When Musk put forward his proposal to buy Openai in February, he was angry at the company and Altman, CEO of Openai, was pressing the conversion of business into a profit entity. Altman and Musk, who have been friends for a long time, have become bitter opponents since Openai as a leader in the ICSI is billions of dollars in financing from Microsoft.

Musk Xai began in 2023 and was pushing to be a direct competitor to Openai. Musk later ruled Openai, on the pretext of violating the contract, and tried to prevent Openai from transferring to a profit company.

In its regular claims, Openai claimed that the “Levant Show” from Musk and Xai hurt her work and that Musk had participated in “harassment” through litigation and attacks on social media and in the press.

As part of her complaint, Openai submitted a Meta call for communications between the company and its executive director and Musk about the offer.

In a statement issued by the court that was published on Thursday, Openai said that when Musk and Xai were trying to form an investor union to finance a acquisition, they approached Zuckerberg with a letter of intent and asked “about possible financing arrangements or investments.”

Zuckerberg nor dead was signed by Louis.

A Meta spokesman refused to comment. Mark Tobrov, Mousse’s lawyer in the case, did not respond to a request for comment.

The statement said in Filering that Meta “spends heavily to develop its own capabilities,” and it “provided salaries of $ 100 million or more to prominent researchers and trying to hunt Openai staff.”

Meta has argued that Openai’s requests for documents are very stressful, and that Openai should get relevant connections from Musk and Xai, instead.

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