(Bloomberg) – Elon Musk said he’s not interested in purchasing Tiktok, a popular social video app that the US tried to ban national security concerns from Chinese owners.
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He made his first comment last month on the topic of buying Tiktok at a meeting in Germany hosted by Mathias Doepfner, the billionaire chief executive of German media Axelspringer.
“I have not bid for Tiktok,” Musk took part in the meeting remotely via a video released by the Dai Welt newspaper on Saturday. “We have no plans as to what to do if we have Tiktok.”
Musk said he personally did not use Tiktok.
“I’m not advocating a bit to acquire Tiktok,” said Musk, who bought Twitter in 2022 before renaming social media service X.
Buying Twitter was the exception, he said. He said, “I usually build a company from scratch.”
Bloomberg News in January could allow Chinese officials to win Tiktok’s US business if the company doesn’t dodge the ban It was reported that it was assessing its sex. Under one scenario, Musk’s X will control Tiktok Us and run the business together, people familiar with the issue told Bloomberg.
On Trump’s first day in office, he signed an executive order temporarily suspending forced sales or closures of Tiktok, giving the company and its Chinese parents more time to reach the deal. The order comes hours after Trump’s inauguration. This was attended by Bytedance CEO Shou Chew.
The order marked the latest turn in years of efforts in Washington to ban apps over security concerns. Trump, who has supported and supported the ban during his first term after the app helped him beat younger voters, has changed his mind. “We won the younger votes. I think we won through Tiktok, so there’s a warm place in Tiktok’s heart,” he said.
Like Trump, Musk was always able to change his mind.
Trump said he will be open to masks that donated more than $250 million to the presidential campaign, or masks that donated Oracle president Larry Ellison, who purchased the app as part of a joint venture with the US government. Ta. This week, Trump also said he would direct authorities to establish a US sovereign wealth fund that could be used to promote Tiktok sales.
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Baitedan publicly refused to sell Tiktok, but future buyers are now reconsidering the Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of national security laws that force future buyers to sell or shutter US services. He says he wants to encourage him. Also, that may not be entirely up to the company – the Chinese government must also register for any transaction.
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I’ll accept Deepseek
In an interview with Axelspringer, Musk said he aims to compete with Deepseek, an artificial intelligence chatbot released in January by Chinese software company Deepseek.
With AI models delivering comparable performance to other chatbots at cost, Deepseek has been sending waves through the tech industry, shaking global tech stocks, questioning investors about the meta of AI infrastructure, Microsoft and more I urged him to throw it on.
“Is that some AI revolution? No, not. Zai and others will soon release better models than Deepseek,” Musk said, referring to his own AI company. It states.
Doge for Germany
Musk said Germany should emulate the process he began with Doge.
“The cleansing process to remove meaningless regulations is war,” he said. “We don’t like to go to war. Without war, we have to have something like what we formed in the US, government efficiency.”
He also said Trump is using tariffs as a “means to cooperate with the state on important issues.”
Musk also reiterated his support for the German party’s far-right alternative. He said it coincided with issues such as “sensible” management of immigration and freedom of speech.
He also tackled the backlash of comments he made at the AFD rally, urging Germans to put “past guilt” behind them, and to look ahead with pride in Germanic culture and values. .
“What I’m not saying is that Nazism should be ignored. I never said that. But I say that Germany’s incredible cultural history is incredible. I will,” he said. “We need to understand the full context of German history: great and awful.”
Apart from that, he said he was worried about a decline in fertility rates. This is because “multiculturalism and globalism show dilution of individual cultures.” He said, “It’s a global mixing pot, because all locations are the same and there is no unique culture in the world.”
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