Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
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There’s tons of alternatives out there now that are as good or better.
Are they as popular, or the default use. How many "alternatives" are actually just piping through chatgpt.
Controlling information means getting control of the defaults, the ones people are used to using.
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Deepseek took the training of foundation models from a billionaire's game to a millionaire's game. If Elon wants an AI monopoly, it'll have to be done through litigation. Which, ya know, they're also trying.
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How to become a millionaire: Start with 97.4 Billion.
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Lol does he even have the money/stocks/bank friends to buy at that price?
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Anyone cozying up to Trump is announcing they have skeletons in their closet and he has the dirt.
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In order to ruin it like Twitter?
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Is he going to buy a “founder” clause in the contract?
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Regular users can use Gemini, Deepseek, Meta AI, and there will probably be many more services in the future.
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Musk: "Yeah safety as in: We must secure the safety of our people and a future for... "Real American" children."
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deepseek has censorship which makes it unreliable. But hopefully someone will fix that since its opensource. So at least there is that. google is garbage in comparison to chatgpt and i havent tried anything meta has produced since i dont want to have anything to do with that filth, so i dont know anything about that one.
So maybe there is some hope in long term, if things dont get worse elsewhere. -
Oh, I forgot about Claude. Last time I tried it, it seemed on par or even better that ChatGPT-4o (but was missing features like browsing).
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The Hacker News post you referenced aligns with the broader narrative: Musk’s bid isn’t about acquiring OpenAI but about obstructing its for-profit transition. By setting a high valuation benchmark, he’s complicating regulatory approval and forcing a reassessment of the nonprofit’s stake. This isn’t altruism; it’s a calculated disruption aimed at frustrating Altman and OpenAI’s leadership.
The bid also underscores Musk’s ongoing feud with Altman, weaponizing financial maneuvers to challenge OpenAI’s trajectory. It’s less about AI ethics or governance and more about power plays and ego clashes.
While the restructuring may benefit the nonprofit financially in theory, Musk’s interference highlights how these transitions often prioritize control over mission. Dressing this up as concern for AI governance is disingenuous—it’s a chess match between tech oligarchs, with humanity as the board.
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Deepseek only has censorship on their hosted site... if you run the open source model on your own hardware it doesn't seem to censor
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But being good to your neighbors and doing direct action like volunteering will make a huge difference, and you don't need the news for that!
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an open source reasoning AI
It's still an LLM right? I'm going to have to take issue with your use of the word 'reasoning' here
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It's real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XAI_(company)
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Chatgpt is also censored.
