Elon Musk Leads $97.4 Billion Bid to Control OpenAI

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  Elon Musk-led consortium offers $100bn to take control of OpenAI

  Bid complicates CEO Sam Altman’s plans to turn artificial intelligence group into for-profit company
  
  Financial Times - 5h

• Altman brushes off Musk’s bid for OpenAI control as rocky saga hits next level

  Elon Musk and Sam Altman have sparred over the future of OpenAI and more since Musk left the company.
  
  MarketWatch - 6h

• Musk-led investor group offers $97.4 billion for OpenAI — Altman declines

  According to The Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk and a group of investors are offering $97.4 billion to take control of OpenAI.
  
  CNBC - 8h
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  Elon Musk-led group makes surprise bid of nearly $100bn for OpenAI

  Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and co-founder, responded that he would not accept and offered to buy X instead. Elon Musk escalated his feud with OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman on Monday. The billionaire ...
  
  The Guardian - 9h
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  Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI, WSJ Reports

  In response to the news, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote: ‘no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want’.
  
  Inc. - 9h
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  Elon Musk and investors offering $97.4 billion for control of OpenAI, WSJ reports

  Elon Musk is leading a group of investors in offering to buy control of OpenAI for $97.4 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
  
  NBC News - 9h

• Elon Musk-led investor group offers $97.4 billion for control of OpenAI

  Billionaire Elon Musk is leading a group of investors in a $97.4 billion bid to take control of artificial intelligence pioneer OpenAI.
  
  CBS News - 8h

• FirstFT: Elon Musk-led group offers $100bn to take control of OpenAI

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  Financial Times - 9h
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  Sam Altman says 'no thank you' to Musk-led group's bid for control of OpenAI

  OpenAI CEO and co-founder Sam Altman appeared to shut down a reported offer from an investor group led by Elon Musk to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, marking the latest back-and-forth ...
  
  The Hill - 9h

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