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Could Meta Be Backed by Musk?

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🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Could Meta be backed quietly by Musk’s input?


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0:00.0

With the insane amount of money in the AI ecosystem right now, I think it's no shock or surprise

0:05.9

that there's also an insane amount of business drama.

0:08.9

And the latest in this never-ending saga, it feels like a finger pointing in lawsuits, is actually

0:14.6

happening between Open AI and META.

0:17.5

Open AIs lawyers have started to question M question meta's role in something that I think

0:22.8

they felt a little threatened by earlier this year, Elon Musk made a bid to buy OpenAI because

0:29.0

of their fiduciary duty. He said that they had an obligation to sell for his price. There was

0:34.5

a lot of drama. Sam Altman responded. Anyways, what's interesting today, though, is in all of the ongoing lawsuits between Elon Musk and Open AI, it seems that meta may have actually been involved in that bid. Open AI is suing their lawyers for more information to see if Zuckerberg was making a back channel deal with Elon Musk and all this. We're going to get into all the drama today. Before we did, I wanted to mention if you want to try any of the AI models that I talk about on the show, I talk about dozens. I mean, we have Open AI, we have Grok, we have Lama that we're going to be talking about today. If you want to try any of those, I'd love for you to try my own startup, which is called AIbox.com. AI and it's essentially a platform that allows you to access the top 40 AI models.

1:13.2

We'll be adding tons more in the coming days. And essentially you can access all of the top models on one platform for 20 bucks a month. So you don't have to have subscriptions to every single platform. This is something I hope saves you a ton of money, but also lets you try all of the different models in one chat. You have text, you have a bunch of image ones, and a bunch of audio models. So there's a lot of really good stuff there. If you want to check it out, I'll leave a link in the description. It's AIbox.a. All right, let's get into what's going on with OpenAI. Open AI right now, they're asking meta basically to prove evidence related to any sort of coordination that they were doing with Elon Musk and

1:44.2

XAI when they, you know, did basically this bid to buy the company. Earlier this year, Elon Musk,

1:50.5

I think this was back in February, he said, look, I will give you $97 billion, $97.4 billion to buy

1:59.0

Open AI. And at the time, Open AI, Open AI, this was an unsolicited offer. So

2:03.6

Open AI turned him down. Sam Altman said something on X basically to the, basically to the point

2:10.7

that he was like, oh, you know, like I don't want you, like you don't need to buy Open AI, but I'll

2:14.9

be happy to buy Twitter for $9 billion if you want. So, you know, he's kind of like, look, for a tenth of the price, I'll buy Twitter. And I think this is kind of because Twitter's valuation had been going down since the acquisition. In any case, I think that, uh, I think that this is definitely kind of the start of all of this drama. And that's where a lot of people thought it ended. But apparently it goes a lot further because META may have been involved

2:37.9

and Open A eye seems to think this is a big issue. So open eyes, lawyers said that they discovered

2:42.9

that Elon Musk communicated with MET about this purchase of chat GPT and basically about, quote,

2:49.1

potential financing arrangements or investment so pretty much

2:51.6

Elon Musk allegedly went over to Zuckerberg and was like hey let's get together we could go buy

2:56.0

open AI we'll fund this thing we'll put the money together and i don't know split it or whatever

3:00.3

it happens to it and at the time meta was incredibly heavily invested in open source so i imagine

3:05.0

they'd probably try to be open source they'd also stick the technology assuming, into meta. Elon Musk had a lot of use cases with putting it into Grok and making his own chat model on his own social media platform. So I think that's kind of where he would have focused as well. Of course, his drama and beef with Sam Altman, I'm sure he would have been thrilled to kind of like take over the company. So this did not happen.

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