OPENAI says that its board of directors “rejects unanimously” rejects Elon Musk’s offer
The Board of Directors of Openai has “unanimously” rejected the offer of the billionaire Elon Musk to buy the non -profit organization which actually governs Openai, the company announced on Friday.
In a statement Shared via the Openai press account on X, Bret Taylor, Chairman of the Board of Directors, called the Musk’s offer “an attempt to disturb its competitors”.
“Openai is not for sale, and the board of directors unanimously rejected Mr. Musk’s last attempt to disturb his competitors,” said Taylor. “Any potential reorganization of OpenAi will strengthen our non -profit organization and its mission to ensure [artificial general intelligence] Take advantage of all of humanity. “”
Monday, Musk, his IA, XAI company, and a group of investors Offered to buy non -profit from Openai for $ 97.4 billion. The CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, and the directors of the Board of Directors of the Company Quickly – but not officially – rejected the unsolicited proposal. In a statementAndy Nussbaum, the lawyer representing the Board of Directors of OpenAI, said that Musk’s offer “did not set any value for [OpenAI’s] non -profit “and that the non -profit organization is” not for sale “.
Musk, a co-founder of Openai, brought a prosecution against the company and Altman who alleys that Optai has embarked on anti-competitive behavior and fraud, among other offenses.
OPENAI was founded as a non-profit organization before moving on to a “for-profit” structure in 2019. The non-profit organization is the only controlling shareholder of the Caped-Profit Openai Corporation, which keeps the formal fiduciary responsibility towards the non -profit charter. Openai is now restructuring – this time for a traditional for -profit company, in particular a public service company. But Musk, via the trial, seeks to prohibit conversion.
Wednesday, in a legal file, the Musk lawyers declared the billionaire will remove its offer If the Board of Directors of Openai “preserves[s] The mission of the charitable organization “and interrupts the conversion of Openai to a for -profit goal. In a Deposit earlier the same dayOPENAI lawyers called Musk’s decision to take control of the company “an inappropriate offense to undermine a competitor”, and a contradiction of his position before the court that a transfer of the assets of the startup by the restructuring would violate his mission as a charitable trust.
