Elon Musk will withdraw bid for OpenAI's nonprofit if its board agrees to terms | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
from cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 16:54
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wccrawford@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 16:57 next collapse

Ahh, financial blackmail. That makes a lot of sense for him.

webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 13 Feb 17:12 next collapse

For context:

This bid is an attempt at a threat because it overvalued the perceived value of the non profit side of openai.

Openai has a known perceived total value. (dont know how much exactly) Musk wants to lay the argument that by refusing his bid. Most of that value is in the non profits side and thus less in the for profit side.

This is a threat because the profit side is where openai partners, like Microsoft have their stake. So its lowering the perceived monopoly money of those shareholders.

Of course can be ignored. OpenAi has stated they can refuse on many other reasons unrelated to the bidding price.

Also OpenAi is a fascist collaborator just like musk.

Source: ai explained yt channel

Bjornir@programming.dev on 13 Feb 18:00 next collapse

Could they not refuse because they simply don’t want to sell?

mannycalavera@feddit.uk on 13 Feb 18:15 next collapse

This is not how the US works. Your assets belong to me now.

thefartographer@lemm.ee on 13 Feb 18:20 next collapse

Oh, okay… Can I visit them on the weekends?

SinningStromgald@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 19:11 collapse

Only if you buy them, me, my SO and theirs lunch. And no cheap shit! Olive Garden minimum. Gods do I love breadsticks!

Brickhead92@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 21:05 collapse
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz on 13 Feb 18:17 next collapse

In a way they can but the rich live in a very weird world of pretend so depending on what their answer is there may be pretend consequences and altered perception of their worth.

Altman responded that simply their charter of “for benefit of all man kind” is enough reason to decline but he carefully mentioned that the actual bidding price would not matter to come to that decision. He is friends with fascists but not stupid.

randon31415@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 20:02 collapse

Shareholders can sue if the board doesn’t do the thing that will maximize shareholder value. Probably the basic underlying problem with companies that sell stock.

ripcord@lemmy.world on 14 Feb 01:18 collapse

What shareholders?

DarkCloud@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 18:13 collapse

Yeah, pretty sure Sam Altman is an investor in Praxis which is another one of those projects to make a billion run fifedom.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(proposed_city)#valu…

db2@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 17:23 next collapse

Fuck Elon Musk

Drusas@fedia.io on 14 Feb 04:54 next collapse

In a court filing on Wednesday, lawyers for Elon Musk said the billionaire will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit if the ChatGPT maker’s board of directors “preserve the charity’s mission” and halt the company’s conversion to a for-profit.

How transparent can you be?

Akasazh@feddit.nl on 14 Feb 13:44 next collapse

Grok not working out ok?

Subdivide6857@midwest.social on 22 Feb 20:05 collapse

Fuck Elon.