Elon Musk against Altman-the new strong man bullied chatt maker

Elon Musk is known for being resentful. Exactly this characteristic could be the driver behind its purchase offer over $ 97.4 billion. It is the escalation of a long-term argument between Trump-Fiebe Elon Musk and Openai boss Sam Altman.

Musk has gathered a number of investors for his offer. This includes Musks two companies for artificial intelligence (KI) VY Capital and Xai. Or the Hollywood entrepreneur Ari Emanuel. The attempt to take over Openai and thus Chatgpt is the preliminary highlight of a dispute that has been gardening for a long time. And very typical for Musk, because again it is about a company that he co -founded. Almost ten years ago, Openai was developed as a non-profit research and development organization for “safe artificial general intelligence” (AGI) for the benefit of humanity. In 2018, Musk then left out who is in charge of the company. After that, it didn’t take long for the daughter Openaai LG to be founded for profit. From then on, you should collect investor funds for the very cost-intensive AI development.

Without reading the offer, Altman replied, who was in Paris at a conference: “No thanks you but we will buy twitter for $ 9.74 Billion if you want.” (“No, thanks, but we buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you want”). He intentionally used the old name Twitter. Musk had renamed the social media company after taking over to X. Musk’s replica was remarkably short: “Swindler” (“swindler”), he wrote.

Even if he has ironed the offer cool: for Altman it is a problem – an expensive one too. Above all, because Musk announced that he would go or even surpass every other offer. Openaai was just in the process of concluding a 40-billion fundraiser contract. This would have doubled the value of the high-tech company compared to four months ago. And would have risen to around $ 300 billion. This would have become one of the most valuable private companies in the world – in a league with Musk’s space company SpaceX.

All of this could now stall – and there are quite a few who suspect that it is exactly what Musk wanted to do. In this way, “give” one of his enemy from earlier years – that would fit the billionaire. Right now that Altman presented himself alongside President Trump, as a driver of a gigantic AI initiative. Musk likes nothing less than competition – when it comes to the proximity to Trump, he is very alpha male.

Openaai was a complete non-profit organization for many years, but is mainly operated by a profit-oriented part. Nevertheless, the board of the non -profit -oriented part remained control of the company. Altman soon ensured that the committee was mainly occupied with his friends. So he wanted to cement his power in the company. And at the end of 2024 he announced that he wanted to rebuild Openai – in order to be able to collect slight funds. To do this, the board of the non-profit arm should give control and receive company shares in exchange. So far the plan.

The structure of Openaai is difficult to penetrate, but Musk has now set the weakest point with its offer. The clever strategist musk has glued its price tag to the company. If Sam Altman wants to continue to pursue his plan, then he would now have to pay a total market sum to the board of the non-profit part of Openai, the law provides. It is hard to imagine that the board can accept a significantly lower value. Musk is a bully, but a skillful, you have to give him that.

Musk founded the AI ​​company Xai in 2023 and has since tried to catch up with the great players in this profitable industry. When Altman now announced the big US ACI offensive at the speaker in the White House with Trump, the musk must have come up with a humiliation. He quickly fueled doubts about the project and wrote on X: “They don’t have the money” (you don’t have the money).

Altman already described Musk as a ruffebold (“Bully”) before this dispute in a podcast, who likes to put on with many people. In the past he also accused him of being jealous of the success of Openaai. And Musk only had to leave the company because he tried to tear the power itself. Now Altman also added in the current argument. When asked whether Musk had been driven by uncertainty about his success with Xai, in the television station Bloomberg: “He probably leads his entire life from a position of uncertainty.” And added: “I think he’s not a happy guy. I’m sorry.”

The clash of the tech giants will soon go into the next round. Musk will be added in the argument, his ego does not allow something else. With his disruptive ferns, he can harm Openai sustainably. It is questionable whether the company can continue to afford the dispute. With every round, the desired renovation becomes more difficult – and thus the financing of expensive infrastructure and better computing power. It is also uncertain whether Sam Altman will be in power in the end of a failure in this conflict. If Musk has proven one in the past, then that he has staying power and does not drain from opponents. One like him doesn’t forget – and he can afford it.