Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion
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Lol is that even a thing? xAI? I've never heard of it, and I self host AI's, and explore them often.
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How stupid is this conspiracy theory:
If it were a threat, like “this is what you’re gonna be worth if you don’t accept, anyway” depending on how power drunk he was feeling when hitting Tweet
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There is still a finite amount of time per day. Any amount of time spent on this is less they have available for everything else.
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There's tons of alternatives out there now that are as good or better.
If he gets it then clearly it will be the Confederate States ChatGPT.
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Cage fight is no option anymore?
Well, maybe it is better this way. Let them ruin each other, and their companies. The world will be a better place then.
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AI did nazi that coming.
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Ruin company A so it is worth 80% less
Ruin country USA so it is worth 80% less.
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lol. Wasn’t grok built specifically without safety in mind?
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I use a 16b reduction of deepseek-r1 on my pc at home and it's definitely not total bullshit. It's 10gb of local model that can solve mathematics and physics problems for you or program in python or bash. It doesn't hallucinate (or I haven't been able to elicit it), it's aware of the extents of its knowledge. It works incredibly fast on an old ryzen 1600 with 6600xt. Having an open source reasoning AI that takes 10gb of SSD and about 13 gb of ram is so weird that the only thing weirder is seeing smart people dismiss it as bullshit out of hand.
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To be clear (and as far as I understand), it’s not a hostile takeover bid because it cannot be: OpenAI is not a public company and thus doesn’t have a fiduciary duty to thousands to millions of shareholders but instead to a handful of big investors who can decide for themselves whether they want that Elon’s money or not. So this isn’t similar to what Twitter had been through but more like Elon teasing Altman I believe.
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How does it compare to ollama in your experience?
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The distinction you’re making is valid but misses the forest for the trees. Whether OpenAI is public or not, Musk’s bid is a textbook power play, not a genuine offer. The lack of fiduciary duty doesn’t erase the intent—it amplifies it. This isn’t about shareholder obligations; it’s about Musk leveraging his wealth to reshape AI governance in his image.
Comparing this to Altman’s jab at Twitter isn’t apples-to-apples. Altman’s point was rhetorical, highlighting Musk’s track record of overpromising and underdelivering. The “open-source” crusade Musk touts is hollow when xAI remains proprietary.
This isn’t about legality or structure—it’s about influence and control. Dressing it up as altruism insults anyone paying attention.
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Bro, I think you just wiped out your entire front page.
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I mean, they believed everything Trump said because he was "a business man, not a politician" even though all he ever was was a failed business man. These people are functional at best - they ain't bright.
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They're also hiding their head in the sand, which might be a bigger issue.
