Elon Musk asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to join xAI bid to buy OpenAI
Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and Tesla and SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk
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Elon Musk asked the richest person in the world Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday to help him seize $ 97.4 billion Openai in early 2025.
The filing is part of a legal case between Musk and Openai, which was initiated last year. The case is proceeding in a federal court in Northern California, and a judge said that Openai could advance Openai with allegations against Musk, who founded Openai as a non -profit organization with Sam Altman and others.
When Musk burned Openai’s proposal to purchase in February, the company and Openai’s CEO Altman’s interest in the business forced into a profitable being. Altman and Musk, who have been friends for a long time, have become bitter rivals since Openai’s emergence as a leader in a productive AI with billions of dollars of financing. Microsoft.
Musk started Xai in 2023 and wanted it to be a direct rival to Openai. Musk later filed a lawsuit against Openai for a violation of a contract and tried to prevent Openai from turning into a non -profit company.
Openai claimed that Musk and Xai have damaged the “Sham proposal” business in their claims, and that Musk was dealing with “harassment” through lawsuits and attacks in the press.
As part of the complaint, Openai applied to Meta for communication for communication between the company, CEO and Musk.
In a statement to the court published on Thursday, Openai said that when they tried to establish an investor consortium to finance an investor to finance an investor, they approached Zuckerberg with a letter of intent and asked “about potential financing arrangements or investments”.
The filing, neither Zuckerberg nor Meta’s LoI said that LoI.
A commodity spokesman refused to comment. Musk’s lawyer in the case Marc Terberoff, did not respond to the request for comments.
The explanation in the file, Meta “spends intensively to improve their own abilities” and “leading to leading Al researchers $ 100 million or more payment packages and Openai employees missed,” he said.
Meta argued that Openai’s documents demands are extremely burdensome and that Openai should receive related communications from Musk and Xai.
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