Behind Elon Musk’s $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:33.4 | Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, February 12th. I'm Julie Chang for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:39.7 | Artificial intelligence could be a powerful tool on the battlefield. But what happens when this tech is |
| 0:45.6 | open-sourced? Here from the Department of Defense's first chief digital and AI officer on that. |
| 0:51.3 | And then Elon Musk is leading a group of investors in a $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI's assets. |
| 0:59.8 | What that could mean for the chat GPT maker as it looks to transform to a for-profit company. |
| 1:09.2 | First up, the rise of AI has brought Silicon Valley and the Department of Defense closer together, |
| 1:14.5 | as prominent AI startups like OpenAI and Anthropic partner with defense tech startups like Andoril |
| 1:20.6 | and Palantir. So what could the emergence of Chinese AI firm Deepseek mean for the future of war? |
| 1:27.1 | And how will Elon Musk's slashing government |
| 1:29.5 | spending through the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, impact the effort to acquire |
| 1:34.5 | new tech? Craig Martel is the CTO of Cohesity and IT company and the DOD's former chief |
| 1:41.3 | digital and AI officer. At the WSJ-CIO Network Summit this week, he sat down |
| 1:46.4 | with WSJ reporter Heather Somerville to talk about that and more. Here's a snippet of their chat. |
| 1:52.9 | Let's talk about deep seek for a moment. The Chinese AI company that rattled U.S. markets |
| 1:57.5 | and touted some very competitive large language models that it said it did with |
| 2:02.3 | much less resources and much less money and much more quickly. Which we don't know for sure. |
| 2:06.5 | Which we don't know for sure. There's a lot of propaganda behind it, but there's also been a lot |
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