CNBC reported on Musk's desire to involve Zuckerberg in the purchase of OpenAI

American billionaire Elon Musk offered Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Meta (the company's activities are recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation), to jointly invest in the purchase of OpenAI, which created the chat bot ChatGPT. This was reported on August 21 by CNBC.

It is clarified that Musk wanted Zuckerberg to finance part of the deal in the amount of $ 97.4 billion.

"OpenAI reported that when Musk and xAI were trying to form a consortium of investors to finance the takeover, they contacted Zuckerberg with a letter of intent and asked about potential financial agreements or investments," the material says.

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The Financial Times newspaper reported on August 13 that OpenAL plans to invest in a startup called Merge Labs in order to compete with Musk's AI company Neuralink for the development of brain implants. It was noted that a new venture called Merge Labs is raising new funds in the amount of $850 million, while it is expected that most of the new capital will come from the OpenAI venture capital team.

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