In an interview on the AI Motion Summit in Paris on Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Elon Musk’s unsolicited $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit as “an try and gradual [OpenAI] down.”
“[Musk] clearly is a competitor,” Altman said. “He’s raised some huge cash for [his AI company] xAI, and so they’re attempting to compete with us from a technological perspective.”
Altman went on to quip, “I believe [Musk’s] entire life is from a place of insecurity […] I don’t suppose he’s a cheerful particular person.”
Altman nearly instantly shot down Musk’s supply for OpenAI’s nonprofit in a public put up on Monday, and it appears more and more possible that OpenAI’s board of administrators will formally reject the bid. However it could not occur immediately. In an interview on Tuesday, Larry Summers, an OpenAI board member, stated he hadn’t obtained “any formal communication [about the bid] of any type outdoors of media studies.”