Ari Emanuel was one of the backers behind Elon Musk’s $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI — and although the Tesla billionaire has indicated he’ll drop said bid if Sam Altman ditches his plans to make it a for-profit business, the Endeavor CEO still thinks the ChatGPT boss is a “phony” for trying to cheat their original mission in the first place.
“Altman and the charity’s Board he controls are floating and furthering all sorts of miscommunications and misconceptions, so let me be crystal clear: We are not proposing to buy the charity, OpenAI, Inc. We are proposing to buy the charity’s majority share (call it 51%) of Sam and Microsoft’s for-profit OpenAI enterprise,” Emanuel said at the Freakonomics Radio Live show on Thursday.