I regret to inform you that, once again, things can always get stupider - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 13 days ago

I regret to inform you that, once again, things can always get stupider

A consortium led by Elon Musk has made an unsolicited bid to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Huge scoop by @jtoonkel and @berber_jin1 www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

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rivasad.bsky.social•12 days ago

dmnd.me•13 days ago

This is on the heels of reporting in the last couple days that Sam Altman outmaneuvered Musk to get that funding commitment for Stargate and to get OpenAI’s products into government instead of xAI’s model.

yeets.biz•13 days ago

maybe he's got a classic car thing but for rapidly becoming obsolete corporations

shaqsquatch.bsky.social•13 days ago

low key hoping this one happens just so i never have to hear or think about sam altman ever again

senorincognito69.bsky.social•13 days ago

you could end world hunger so many times with 97 billions...

polearmguy.bsky.social•13 days ago

lol

nerdotim.bsky.social•13 days ago

China will win if this happens. They keep moving ahead faster while USA led by Elon flounders like a drugged up Dictator that's overusing Ketamine!

spanishspy.bsky.social•13 days ago

that Weird Al song was a parody not an instruction manual

jlwashi.bsky.social•13 days ago

Elon is using his power to takeout Sam Altman‘s AI business.

rincewind.run•13 days ago

I actually am curious what happens if this goes through (though I doubt it will)

I feel like the immediate brain drain and the way Elon has polarized so many people against him might do significant damage to OpenAI’s current market leader position

serious-bichon.bsky.social•13 days ago

Why can’t this dude just make a bunch of AI friends to talk to and leave the rest of us the hell alone?

drgdave.bsky.social•13 days ago

Oh!

Well in that case, I support the move!

davelf.bsky.social•13 days ago

Given the utter lack of a viable business model for OpenAI at this juncture, being bought at a premium might be the kind of Golden Goose-type exit that would make sense for them

Of course, it would be like when Elon bought Twitter and the value plunged immediately

alsorae.bsky.social•13 days ago

Fingers crossed that he blows money on yet another overvalued property.

nightpups.bsky.social•13 days ago

half of me says good, he will ruin it, the other half says, ooh no he will put it in all the government departments ruining them further

thegreencooler.bsky.social•13 days ago

I might be speaking to soon but this almost feels like a win-win.

He buys it, he wrecks it.

He doesn't buy it, they get less government funding because he's mad at them.

glennwith2ns.bsky.social•13 days ago

I think he wants to plug ChatGPT into everyone using his Neurolink implant

columbobro.bsky.social•13 days ago

Giving Elon a hundred billion for a business that’s currently a money pit after he’s already lit $13 billion of your cash on fire to turn Twitter into the Daily Stormer, is a deal every bank in the world should walk away from

david.uncensored.zip•13 days ago

it will result in OpenAI being the most valuable company in the world because the trump admin will declare all agencies must use it.

oh you mean its service.

useless to actively harmful is my guess.