Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion

[smackemwittadic@lemmy.world]

[maplebar@lemmy.world]

[maplebar@lemmy.world]

The best and most affordable way for Elon Musk to "make the world a better place" would be to drop dead.

[abidanyre@lemmy.world]

What is this? An OpenAI for ants?

[gbu_28@lemm.ee]

[gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works]

[gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works]

I will be shocked if he uses his own money for this. He just got a ton of backdoors into the treasury department, remember? That was just last week.

[i_miss_daniel@lemmy.world]

Coma did you say?

[thefogan@programming.dev]

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

It'll work this time. He just has to be even shittier about it. /s

[ryper@lemmy.ca]

[sumguyonline@lemmy.world]

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

Alternative X Cancel link to thread:

https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1889059531625464090

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

I'd take $5M of government funding and make similar progress. Yo DOGE, call me.

[jordanlund@lemmy.world]

[spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works]

[munkisquisher@lemmy.nz]

Saudis were happy to bankroll it to kill the main organisation platform behind the Arab Spring uprisings

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

[essteeyou@lemmy.world]

Because if you believe it's worth $97B you don't offer to overpay by $3B...

[atrielienz@lemmy.world]

At least part of the money helps invested in things like Twitter etc he borrowed from other companies he owns that are overvalued (Tesla).