In the world of artificial intelligence, waters are not settled. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed that Elon Musk’s company actually aimed at the purchase of the company. The investor group led by Musk offered an offer of $ 97.4 billion to seize the control of OpenAI. However, Altman stated that he did not take this initiative seriously and implied that Musk’s real intention was to gain advantage in the artificial intelligence race.

“Trying to slow us down”

Altman, in an interview with Bloomberg in AI Action Summit in Paris, “I think it’s probably just trying to slow us down. Frankly, a competitor. I wish he only competed by producing a better product. Dik

There is a long hostility between Musk and Altman, and the basis of this hostility lies in the concern that Musk is away from the principles of the OpenAI’s non -profit.

The German rejected a surprise proposal of $ 97.4 billion from a group led by Musk very recently, “No thank you, but if you want, we can buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion”.

Altman, on the other hand, made a harsh discourse for Musk in the interview: “Probably his whole life comes from an insecure position, I feel sorry for him. I don’t think he’s a happy person, I feel sorry for him. “

Discourses harden

Altman made similar discourses about Musk’s purchasing proposal in an interview with CNBC at the same summit. Altman pointed out that Musk did not take his offer personally seriously.

In recent weeks, Musk claimed that OpenAI could not provide enough financing to the Stargate project, which aims to invest in a large -scale informatics infrastructure in the USA. When OpenAI announced an investment plan of $ 100 billion in the project, Musk said that the company does not have money for this fund. The question about this subject Altman, Musk’s controversial “Funding Secured” sharing about Tesla in the past, referring to the sharing of financing, “I am not the person who tweets, I’m only really working and building,” he said.

This famous tweet was the subject of an investigation by the securities and the stock market commission due to fluctuations in Tesla’s stock price. At the end of Musk, he agreed to pay a penalty of 20 million dollars with Tesla and left the chairmanship of the billionaire company.