Elon Musk tried to buy Openai: even for 100 dollars, Sam Altman does not flank

The war between Elon Musk and Sam Altman does not date from yesterday. After the legal battle, the two ex-colleagues are now fighting on the financial field: Elon Musk A, accompanied by a consortium of investors, offered an Openai buyout offer of $ 97.4 billion. To which Sam Altman, the CEO of the most famous firm of the young industry of artificial intelligence, immediately replied in the negative on X (ex-Twitter): “No thanks, but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you want“. A direct tackle to which Musk did not fail to answer with a scathing”Crook“.

Sam Altman still laughs

But then, what are the investors that surround Elon Musk as part of this buy -back proposal? In reality, everyone revolves around Elon Musk. Baron Capital Group, for example, was founded by Ron Baron, who also holds important shares at Tesla and Space X. In parallel, the founder of Atreids Management Gaven Baker spent 18 years at Fidelity, where he made His first investment in Space X. He also has shares at Tesla. Antonio Gracias is the founder of Valor Management, and an early investor of Space X, in addition to having been a member of the board of directors of Tesla. Ditto for Vy Capital, which also has a participation in Space X and which has invested in The Boring Company and Neuralink.

All of these companies are therefore more or less linked to Elon Musk, and this offer of Openai buyout for $ 97.4 billion could as well be a serious attempt as a provocation. Elon Musk could have a simple objective that the board of directors, which oversees the activity of the company, decides to accept it. But Sam Altman has seriously reduced the risks that such a thing has happened since 2023. In addition, Openai is an integral part of the Stargate project of the US government led by Donald Trump: a project that generated an investment of $ 500 billion. In other words, the war between Musk and Altman (Musk was one of the founders of the company) continues, and this since the major success of Chatgpt.