What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Is Elon Actually Trying to Buy OpenAI?
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🗓️ 14 February 2025
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Summary
Is Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion offer to buy OpenAI genuine—or an irresistible opportunity to troll Sam Altman?
Guest: David A. Fahrenthold, investigative reporter for the New York Times
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| 0:20.0 | If you are not as tragically online as I am, you might have missed Elon Musk and Sam Altman |
| 0:26.6 | tweeting sophomorically at each other this week. Dave Ferenthald, who's an investigative reporter |
| 0:32.5 | for the New York Times, saw the tweets. I did. I did see that. |
| 0:39.6 | Elon Musk says he wants to buy OpenAI, Sam Altman's company. |
| 0:45.5 | So Elon is leading this group of investors who say they are offering $97.4 billion for OpenAI's |
| 0:53.5 | controlling nonprofit. |
| 0:55.2 | Altman says, no way. |
| 0:56.5 | And tweets, no thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion, if you want. |
| 1:03.2 | To which Elon replies, Swindler. |
| 1:06.6 | Feels very classic, very mature. |
| 1:09.2 | Right. |
| 1:10.1 | But what, if anything, as someone who's been following this story, does the tweet war tell you? |
| 1:17.9 | Well, two things. |
| 1:19.5 | On a personal level, you're right. |
| 1:20.6 | These are people who are, you know, this is not the old model of tech or of industry executives. |
| 1:26.7 | These are some of the most powerful people in the most, you know, powerful technological spaces in our country. |
| 1:31.1 | And they are just tweeting insults each other at each other like, you know, 12-year-olds. |
| 1:38.4 | Sam Altman, just to remind you, is the CEO of OpenAI. |
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