$100 billion for Open AI?

Wake Up to Money

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4.4 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Sean Farrington has more on Elon Musk's bid to buy ChatGPT-maker Open AI. Plus, Donald Trump signs executives orders aimed at introducing 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium.

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0:00.0	Eleven climbers appeared to have died on the world's second highest mountain K2.
0:06.0	It was one of the deadliest days in mountaineering history.
0:10.0	Rock falls, avalanches.
0:11.0	Huge pieces of ice. All are big enough to kill you.
0:14.0	He just flew out into Devoid and he was gone.
0:17.0	How did it all go so wrong?
0:19.0	And is it really worth risking death to feel alive?
0:22.3	Why would somebody pay to go to a place called the death cell on a vacation?
0:27.4	Extreme.
0:28.3	Peak Danger.
0:29.3	With me, Natalia Melman Petrazella.
0:31.8	Listen to the full series now.
0:33.4	First on BBC Sounds.
0:36.1	BBC Sounds, music, radio, podcasts.
0:40.5	Wake Up to Money from BBC 5 Live.
0:43.8	Hello, welcome.
0:45.0	It is Wake Up to Money.
0:46.5	What could 97 billion dollars buy you?
0:49.8	How about Open AI?
0:51.2	Group of investors, fronted by Elon Musk,
0:53.5	want to take control of the maker of ChatGPT.
0:58.6	We'll have a look if a deal is possible.
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