After being fired by the company he co-founded, hired by microsoft and then returning as openai chief, sam altman is again facing a crisis. His ongoing stand-off with the World's Richest Man, Elon Musk, Has Taken Another Turn after Musk and a Bunch of Like-Minded Investors Announced they would be putting in a bid of $ 97BN to Acquire.
Responding to the bid, altman tweeted: “No Thank You, but we will buy twitter for $ 9.74bn if you want.”
Last Year, Musk Filed a Complaint In San Francisco Suprior Court Alleging that Openai Ceo and President Greg Brockman Breed The Founding Agreement of the Creation of Openai.
The company was originally founded as a not-future organization, but to purchase the computer capacity it needed, it reorganized to create a for-profit business.
The company received $ 10bn of support from Microsoft, which included Access to the microsoft cloudFor Running Openai Large Language Models (LLMS) Such as chatgpt.
In January, The Trump Administration Announced Project StargateSupported by tech giants include Oracle, it's run as a new company that Intends to Invest $ 500BN over the next four years in building ai infrastructure for openai in the us.
In a blog posted on Monday, covers ICROSOFT Partnership, Writing: “We do not intended To alter or interpreet the definitions and processes that define our relationship with microsoft. We fully expected to be partnered with microsoft for the long term. “
However, Openai's position as the Leader in LLM Development has been followedy Folling the release of China's Deepsek Ai Model, which massively undersively undeed.
While Lawmakers are Trying to curb deepsekDue to user data potentially being shared with China, the Deepsek Models are Open Source, which means they can lead private and on any public cloud infrastructure. In Fact, Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google Cloud Platform All Offer The Deepsek R1 Model.
Costs Vary Depending on the Graphics Processor Unit Required, but the Cheapest Way to Run the LLM is via is via application programming interfaces (apis), which connect directly to Deepsaek Version of.
While Openai Charges $ 2.50 per million input tokens for its gpt-4o model, directly connecting to Deepsek through an api is priced at $ 0.14 per million input tokeens in situles On Previous Cached Information. Non-cached inputs are priced at $ 0.55 per million tokens.
Argually, the existence of a model that can be run far cheaper than openai may have some some investors. Certainly, The Stock Market and Nvidia's Share Price Crashed after Deepsek's Announcement. The fact that musk has put in a bid for openai, just weeks after the new deepsek llm, may well be the tech billionaire's attempt to capitalise on the market cob Gin to understand there is more than one way to do ai.
There are questions over Musk's X.Aai Business and Its Grok Llm. The company recently closed a series c funding round of $ 6bn, but now musk and a band of investors are looking to experts Openai. Clearly, should musk be successful in his bid, he will be at the center of the us ai strategy, and the $ 500BN stargate initial.