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_Published 2025-02-11. A group of investors led by Elon Musk is offering about $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit behind OpenAI, escalating a dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Musk helped found a decade ago._


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## Transcript

The company is not for sale. Neither is the mission. We're happy to buy Twitter if you want to talk about that. Sam. Sam. Sam. How can we trust your models as safe? Not much to talk about safety here at the summit. How can you reassure people your models are safe? Safety track record. I think you have to look at what we've done. This summit obviously is not as focused on safety. The previous ones have been, but it's an integral part of everything we do at the work camp. And do you think. Did you see it? It's caused a lot of people a lot of pain. This is not a serious person. Can you afford your own company now?

Though it does raise that question can you afford to buy OpenAI off the non profit now? The board will decide what to do there. Like the non-profit will continue as a very, very strong thing. The mission is really important. And we're just, you know, we're totally focused on making sure we preserve that. And how worried are you about China? Are we worried about China? China? Um, we'd like to work with China. I think. Can you. Do you think your government would let you do that? Do I know that for sure? No. Should we try as hard as we can? Absolutely. Yes. I think that's really important. And is that important for safety and for trust?

How much is OpenAI? Why? If it's not $100 billion, how much is it? It's not for sale. What do What do you think about the critics of Mr. Musk? He said that OpenAI is not open. Um, I mean, I think OpenAI has done the most to push the benefits of AI into the world of anyone. We have open source, a lot of things. I think we should probably open source somewhat more. We'll probably do that. Grok is not super open source either. But you know, that's not that's up to him. Is there a good place to convince people here though to trust you on safety? I think that's a really important thing. There's a lot of concern here.

There's not enough about safety in the declaration. Can you do more? How are you going to persuade? That actually has not been the main thing we've been hearing about. The concern is like, you know, can you make AI cheaper and can you have more of it? And can we get it to be better and more advanced? Can you. Sorry. Carry on with that. Well, yes, I think we can also do that. But again, safety is integral to what we do is we get into this world of agents. We've got to make these systems really safe or people just won't use them. It's the same. It's the same thing. And we'll push super hard on doing that.

Do Europe have to regulate more? No, no, I mean, European people can decide whatever they want to do, but they don't have to regulate more. The European people have to make decisions about how to balance the potentials of AI, the potential risks of AI. And the people will decide we'll follow the rules. And, you know, there's trade offs either way.

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