I first saw the news via a CNBC clip where a reporter had caught OpenAI founder Sam Altman hurrying off to a meeting, seeming to dismiss the offer as simply a ploy to slow them down.
To catch everyone up, Elon initially invested in OpenAI and now runs a competitor X.ai and now they are all bickering and trying to buy each other out. Oh, also China recently introduced a way-cheaper and better ChatGPT competitor and now everyone is scrambling. Altman famously told a group in India that there was ‘no way anyone could ever catch up…’
OpenAI will never sell ChatGPT for $100B. That price would be way too low – especially after the US Govt just helped broker $500B project “Stargate” that mostly has funds earmarked for OpenAI. Meanwhile, 100+ of SpaceX and Tesla’s best engineers have crawled and downloaded all of our government systems and identified patterns of interest.
Wait, what is actually going on here!?