Earlier this week, Elon Musk made waves by providing Sam Altman $97.4 billion for OpenAI — which Altman swiftly rejected, countering with a taunt about shopping for Twitter for a fraction of that. As ZDNET's Tiernan Ray defined, Musk's supply gave the impression to be a stunt to drive Altman's hand in what has grow to be a bromance-gone-sour between the 2 tech CEOs.
Regardless, it received us pondering: Who ought to run what’s arguably probably the most highly effective AI firm on the earth?
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We requested, you answered: right here's who ZDNET readers suppose ought to run OpenAI.
ZDNET's LinkedIn ballot provided voters three choices: Altman, Musk, or one other candidate. Maybe unsurprisingly, Altman gained by a landslide with 50% of the entire votes, in comparison with Musk's 23%. Whereas no third-party contenders materialized within the feedback, a number of voters famous that they'd desire "anyone BUT Musk," full cease.
That sentiment doubtless stems from how a lot energy Musk already has within the AI area, particularly now that he's serving as an adviser to President Trump. Given the Trump administration's latest reductions round AI security and regulation — which have been already nascent to start with — a Musk-controlled OpenAI might additional focus certainly one of AI's largest gamers underneath a small umbrella of pursuits.
Altman could have come out on high, nevertheless it's onerous to say whether or not that's based mostly on his {qualifications} or monitor report, or simply that he isn't the opposite man.
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For the time being, Altman is attempting to lift $40 billion from traders whereas additionally extracting OpenAI's for-profit arm, OpenAI LLC — throughout the subsequent two years — from the better mother or father firm, OpenAI Inc. (a non-profit). Some theorize that by tossing this supply out now, Musk is attempting to place a valuation on OpenAI and thus stick Altman in a troublesome spot along with his board, and forcing him right into a fraught negotiation with Musk over the bid.