In a daring and unexpected maneuver, Elon Musk has put forward a bid for $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, a top artificial intelligence research outfit. Musk’s offer comes as many are worried that OpenAI has become too much like a typical Silicon Valley company and is no longer fully committed to its founding mission of being a nonprofit focused on safe, open-source AI research. Musk, famous for his work with Tesla and SpaceX (and less so for his recent controversies involving Twitter), has said he’s unhappy with the way OpenAI is now operating and believes it has become something too
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