Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and Space X, owner of X -To Twitter- and responsible for the Department of Government Efficiency of the Donald Trump administration, also wants to get with OpenAI And it is that the billionaire leads the offer of an investor consortium that he has offered 97.4 billion dollars To buy the non -profit entity that OpenAI manages.

As reported The Wall Street JournalMusk’s lawyer Marc Uberooff presented the offer to the Board of Directors of Openai on Monday. The investment groups includes large capital firms As Baron Capital Group, Management LLC value, Domerides Management or Eight Partners VC LLC; Some of which have already collaborated with Musk previously.

The offer, however, is well below the market value of the artificial intelligence company that, according to Bloomberg, It would be about 300,000 million dollars. And this is one of the reasons that have led to Sam AltmanCEO of Openai, has showed its rejection of the proposition. “No, thanks, but we will buy Twitter for 9,740 million dollars if you want”, He commented through the social network, using the previous name of the platform and considerably reducing the amount of the offer.

In addition, Sam Altman would have reinforced this internal position in a statement, which includes the aforementioned medium. “Our structure guarantees that no individual can take control of OpenAI … These are tactics to try to weaken because we are making great progress”, The manager told employees.

The economic proposal to acquire OpenAI is one more chapter in the confrontation between Musk and Altman. It should be remembered that Elon Musk was part of. The OpenAI Foundation As a non -profit organization in 2015, but in 2019 he left the project. Then Sam Altman became CEO of the company and promoted the creation of a subsidiary for profit to capture investments. The manager is process of converting that training into a traditional company, turning the original OpenAi conception. The Discrepancies in this management model They are the main cause of discrepancies.

Moreover, over the last months Musk has not only publicly expressed his opinion on Openai’s management, but has presented a series of Complaints legal accusing the company of betraying its original non -profit mission by creating a subsidiary and associating with Microsoft, the largest investor, to dominate the development of artificial intelligence.

“It is time for Openai to be the open source force again and safety centered that was once“Musk said in a statement provided by Anoberoff, according to Wall Street Journal. “We will make sure that happens“
The group of investors, in addition, has promised match or overcome any offer Highest in order to do with OpenAI.

Elon Musk’s offer comes in a moment of growing pressure on OpenAI, after Chinese companiesS Deepseek and Alibaba They have launched their models to the market, which they say are cheaper and present greater yields than those presented by Sam Altman’s signature.
Elon Musk, in addition, has its own artificial intelligence project, called XAIlaunched in 2023.

Elon Musk doesn’t want Tiktok

In parallel, the businessman Tiktok’s acquisition has been separated from the possible acquisition having been one of the names that have sounded to take care of the social network operations in the United States. The Bytedance platform, which suffered a blackout at the end of January according to the law that requires the sale of the social network to an American company or its prohibition. He currently enjoys an extension of 75 days granted by Donald Trump upon arrival at the White House.

In his speech at a conference in Germany at the end of last month, whose statements have now leaked, Musk said Not having made any offer. “Twitter’s acquisition, now called X, was very unusual. The reason I did is because it was important to preserve freedom of expression in the United States and to the extent that we are legally allowed in the rest of the world. I felt that acquiring Twitter was an important productive step for the future of humanity“He said, according to the EFE agency.

Considers, in this sense, that the same logic would not apply to an operation on Tiktok, which It would respond only to economic reasons. Nor has he indicated that he would do with the platform in case of acquiring it, although he has ventured that he would analyze the algorithm on which he is based on making it more productive and beneficial for society.

On February 3, Donald Trump signed an executive order with the intention of creating a sovereign fund that gave rise to a company to acquire Tiktok. The president of the United States is in favor of guarantee the presence of the network in the country. “I would like the United States to have a 50% participation in a joint company. When doing this, we save Tiktok, we keep it in good hands and allow him to continue working”Trump said a few weeks ago.