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Is there any chance that the board considers it at all?

I mean its mission is to maximize the interests of shareholders, and right now, it's unclear that OpenAI will maintain its dominating position over competitors in the long run.

EDIT: forgot to mention I am not a Trump/Musk guy in any way. Just talking about the deal here.

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Is that true for the current board arrangement?

I thought they were set up a some kind of non profit and thier mandate was to pursue other goals not profit. That was what caused the issue with the altman firing previously right?

Even the way they want to go public, as a Public Benefit Corporation, calls into question whether the board then would allow Musk to take a controlling stake.

That is not the mission (it is a non-profit) and does not have to be after they transition either.

ah right

The transition involves a sale of the non-profit's assets. This is what Elon has offered to buy.

They can refuse Elon's offer, but they can't turn around and sell the assets 50% cheaper to someone else (as they had previously planned).

Sure they can. They're a non-profit, they don't have a fiduciary duty. It may cause some ramifications for the taxes and accounting but they absolutely can since they don't have shareholders.

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