The (malicious) hidden agenda after Elon Musk’s surprising offer to buy OpenAI

On Monday night the news jumped (that very few knew a boat soon to foresee) that A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk had put an offer of 97.4 billion dollars on the table to take control of OpenAI.

The South African and Sam Altman, CEO of Openai, have starred in a good number of trifulcas in recent times And in this sense the unusual purchase offer launched by Elon Musk could be interpreted, according to some, as an attempt by the owner of X to ridicule in public to which one of his greatest enemies is undoubtedly.

But does the richest man in the world really have real possibilities of throwing the bond to OpenAi? The truth is that It is highly unlikely that Musk gets out of his own in this particular matter. Sam Altman does not have, after all, intention of giving it control of the OpenAi matrix. “No thanks, but we will buy Twitter for 9,740 million dollars, if you want,” Sam Altman replied yesterday to Elon Musk on the social network X. Altman’s response has worse lights, because the figure he offers to Musk to buy Twitter is four times below what the South African paid for the social network in 2022.

Anyway, and although Musk’s offer has all ballots to ship, This is still a statement of war that potentially puts in a very uncomfortable situation to the OpenAi CEO. And this is due to the peculiar structure of the company, which to the top of evil is currently immersed in a complex restructuring process to convert openai into an entity “for-profit”. When the company started in 2015, it was a non-profit entity, but it is currently its “For-Profit” division that carries the singing voice within OpenAi. At the end of 2024 the company led by Sam Altman announced that its non -profit division would resign its control over OpenAI in exchange for actions in the chatgpt matrix. And the Musk purchase offer complicates the company’s restructuring plan.

The OpenNai restructuring plan to become an “For-Profit” entity

This restructuring will be inevitably expensive for OpenAI and the offer placed on the table by Musk only increases the company’s market price (especially when South African has pledged to match or overcome any other offer that emerges on the horizon).

The legislation requires, after all, the OpenAI Management Board pays its “non-profit” division a price that is at the real market value of the company. And Musk’s succulent offer will inevitably open Openai in a brete if he pays for his non -profit section of less than 97.4 billion dollars offered by the South African.

Asked about whether Openai will be able to cover his own restructuring plan after the emergence of Musk and his unexpected purchase offer, Altman has thrown balls out and has assured that this is an issue on which the company’s board of directors will have the last word.

Musk’s purchase offer may not translate into Openai’s acquisition, but it will inevitably cause shock in the company. The OpenAI restructuring plan is of the utmost importance for the company because it will be easier to access investors, but Musk’s offer complicates the process.

It is possible, on the other hand, to raise the question of why Musk has decided to attack Altman just now. And the answer to this question is undoubtedly of an economic nature. Openai has recently presented with Donald Trump’s support the ambitious Stargate project, in which the Oracle software giant and the Japanese Softbank conglomerate are also involved. This project implies the investment of 500,000 million dollars in the expansion of consecrated data centers AI to be able to make the so -called general artificial intelligence (AGI) come true, the one that matches or exceeds in intelligence human beings.

Elon Musk would be jealous of Sam Altman by the Stargate project recently presented by OpenAI

Openai’s restructuring seems even more peremptory with the launch of the Stargate project because the company will be easier to collect investor funds. If the restructuring is successful, Openai could reach a value exceeding 300,000 million dollars and become the company that does not quote the world’s most valuable stock market. A milestone would irritate, however, greatly to Musk, whose company of AI would inevitably laughed in this area of ​​activity.

Openai’s protagonist role in the Stargate project would have equally bother South African, condemning him to a position to which he is not definitely accustomed: that of “Signdón”. And it is that the fact that Donald Trump has chosen Sam Altman as his main ally in the AI ​​area and as the leader of the pharaonic Stargate project would have definitely sat down to Musk burnt horn.

Musk’s intention would be to put sticks on the wheels to that project, which after its purchase offer could be delayed for months and put it more complicated to OpenAI when looking for investors. From doors to outside the South African wields in any case a very different argument and emphasizes that IAG in the hands of a private company like OpenAi could turn AI in a potentially very dangerous technology.

Although they are currently staunch enemies, Musk and Altman were partners in the past. And in 2015 they founded Openai together. The company was then born as a non -profit entity to work on the development of a fully safe IAG.

Musk cut Amarras with Openai in 2018. And shortly after the light “For-Profit” of the company with the last goal of raising investors funds and thus covering the burdensome development of AI.

Since Openai announced its restructuring plan to become an entity “For-Profit”, Musk has fiercely criticized that plan and has assured that this breaks the foundational principles of Openai.

Sam Altman Tilda, meanwhile, to Musk of a spiteful exsocium And he accuses him of trying to undermine his efforts in the field of AI to benefit his own artificial intelligence company: Xai.

Even when Xai, who saw the light in July 2023, is a company valued at 50,000 million dollars, does not definitely play in the same league as Openai, whose value is currently around 300,000 million dollars.