Musk Bids to Buy OpenAI, Calling for Return to Open Source

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Musk Bids to Buy OpenAI, Calling for Return to Open Source
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Elon Musk has made an unsolicited offer to acquire OpenAI, the nonprofit organization that oversees OpenAI's for-profit arm. Musk's stated goal is to return OpenAI to its roots as an open-source, safety-focused entity. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded with a joke, suggesting Musk could buy Twitter instead. Musk responded with insults, calling Altman a 'swindler' and 'Scam Altman'.

submitted an unsolicited offer to the company's board of directors on Monday. The group wants to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI's for-profit arm.from CEO Sam Altman ."No thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want," Altman wrote on the social media platform Musk owns.

Musk, as you can imagine, wasn't a fan of Altman's joke, writing"Swindler" in response and later calling him"Scam Altman."

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