Elon and Sam co-founded OpenAI (along with others) as a non-profit, aiming to make AI open-source for the good of humanity.
Then things got messy. Elon walked away, saying he didn’t want a conflict of interest since Tesla was also diving into AI. Later, Sam flipped the script. He created a for-profit version of OpenAI and planned to quietly absorb the non-profit into it. Elon was furious, calling it a betrayal of OpenAI’s original mission. Now, Elon is back with a bold move. He and a group of investors have slammed $97 billion on the table to buy the non-profit OpenAI. Their mission? Keep it non-profit, make it open-source again, and stop OpenAI from becoming just another corporate cash machine. The OpenAI board is expected to reject the offer, but here’s the twist—it puts a clear price tag on the non-profit OpenAI. That makes it much harder for the for-profit side to just absorb it for free. Game on. Of course, maybe Elon’s move isn’t just about saving AI for humanity. Could he also be trying to crush the competition? Maybe feeling a little left out of Trump’s $500 billion Stargate project that includes Sam but excludes him?
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