PANews reported on February 13 that according to the New York Times, the board of directors of OpenAI questioned the $97.04 billion acquisition proposal made by investors including Elon Musk, and pointed out in a court filing on Wednesday that the proposal contradicted Musk's claims in the lawsuit against OpenAI last year.
OpenAI said in the filing that Musk had previously argued that the company's assets must remain under the control of nonprofit organizations and cannot be transferred to other entities for the public benefit, but now he is trying to acquire the assets. OpenAI believes this exposes Musk's "hypocrisy."
Musk's lawyer Marc Toberoff responded that the core of the lawsuit is not the control of OpenAI, but the misconduct of Sam Altman and OpenAI. He said that if OpenAI is willing to abandon the plan to "sell" non-profit assets, Musk will withdraw the acquisition proposal.
