On Wednesday, the Board of Directors of Openai questioned the justification of the offer of $ 97.4 billion from Elon Musk and others to gain control of a company with a high profile artificial intelligence.
On Monday the Consortium of Investors led by Mr. Musk Offered to buy Assets of a non -profit organization that control the company and escalating about the summer disputes between Mr. Musk and the CEO of OpenI, Sam Altman.
In the court on Wednesday, the company stated that Mr. Musk’s offer is contrary to the legal claims that a billionaire made in court proceedings that he had filed against Openai last year. In his submission, Openai claimed that Mr Musk stated in his court proceedings that assets must remain with a non -profit organization and could not be transferred to another entity for public profit.
The company basically accuses Mr. Musk of hypocrisy. In his court proceedings, he claimed that OpenIi must follow a non -profit organization. Now, Openi claims that he is arguing.
The OpenAi Council has not yet refused the offer.
Marc Toberoff, a lawyer in Los Angeles, who filed a lawsuit against Open on behalf of Mr. Musk, said The New York Times: It is Altman itself and Openi’s misconduct. ”
If the Board of Openai is “ready to determine to log off the assets of the charity organization in the so -called” conversion “, it will select its offer,” added Mr. Toberoff, referring to OpenIA’s efforts to disturb from the company Nonprofova check. “But of course Openi will never do it.”
Mr. Musk’s consortium could still complicate Mr. Altman’s efforts to separate the company from the non -profit board and increase the billions of dollars that Openi needs to build new technologies.
After more than a year, Mr. Altman and his colleagues have been working a plan to move the company’s control From the non -profit organization to Openai investors, including Microsoft and an investment company.
OpenIi negotiated and Agreement to raise funds of $ 40 billionled by the Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. According to three people with the knowledge of the agreement who spoke on the condition of anonymity, new round values of raising funds to $ 300 billion.
The unusual corporate structure of San Francisco has provided Music to open up to the Open and the Openi in this plan.
In order to separate from the non -profit board, Mr. Altman and his colleagues must provide compensation. For example, OpenIa can pay a non -profit organization a one -time fee or to provide a minority share in the company.
However, the assets of the non -profit organization were not awarded. Mr. Musk is trying to set one and his offer could mean that the profit arms of Openii would have to spend more to gain independence from the old non -profit organization.
The clock is ticking to change Openai how it works. According to Openai’s conditions Last investment roundIt must move control of the company from a non -profit organization in less than two years. Otherwise, its financing is transferred to debt debt according to documents.
(The Times has sue Openai and Microsoft, which require copyright infringement for intelligence -related AI intelligence reports. Both companies rejected the claims of the action.)
Mr. Musk’s aggressive move is the latest in a very personal struggle with Mr. Altman, who began 10 years ago as a partnership. They were part of a group that founded OpenI as a non -profit organization in 2015 and said they wanted to freely share their technologies with the world.
When Mr Musk left the organization three years later after the Battle of Control, Mr. Altman added OpenAi to a profitable company to raise the huge amount of money to build AI technology.
At the end of 2023, the non -profit council suddenly fired Mr. Altman and said he had no longer trust him to build AI in favor of humanity – which was one of the original principles of the non -profit organization.
He returned to society in just five days and began to stack the advice with his allies while investigating ways to interrupt the control of the non -profit organization. If they interrupted the control of the non -profit organization, Mr. Altman and his allies believed, Openi would be more attractive to investors.
Before the offer, which became public on Monday, Mr. Musk also moved to block changes in the structure of Openai with court proceedings filed with the Federal Court last year.
