会合，会う the 億万長者s competing to buy TikTok - from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to ByteDance stakeholder Jeff Yass
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick and ChatGPT-製造者 Sam Altman could team up
- Kevin O'Leary and Trump 閣僚 公式の／役人 Mnuchin also want to buy TikTok
- Don't 推定する／予想する Google or Meta, 包囲するd with 独占禁止の 訴訟s, to join the fray?
After months of heated 審議 over the app's safety,?大統領 Joe Biden has 調印するd a 法案 banning?TikTok?in an 成果／努力 to 軍隊 a sale - but who are the mega-豊富な suitors who want to buy the 中毒の app 誇るing a coveted 170 million 使用者s in the US?
Under the new 法律制定, Chinese parent company ByteDance has a year to sell its 火刑／賭ける in the app in order for it to continue operating in the US.?
It's important to 公式文書，認める that 中国's 商業 省 would have to 認可する ByteDance's divestiture from TikTok, and the Chinese 政府 has 示すd its strong 対立 to the sale.?
In the event a sale is 認可するd, it appears Kevin O'Leary of Shark 戦車／タンク fame may be 開始するing an Elon Musk-style 購入（する） of TikTok.
O'Leary is 報道によれば 組み立てる／集結するing a group of 投資家s to buy the app, によれば CNBC. His 開始 企て，努力，提案 would be $20 b illion to $30 billion, which is a 90% 削減（する） from that company's 2023 valuation of $220 billion.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew has said the 法案 would 禁止（する） the app, 示すing that ByteDance has no 意向s to divest from the popular ビデオ-株ing 壇・綱領・公約
O'Leary's (pictured) 企て，努力，提案 to buy TikTok is in question after the New York 地位，任命する 報告（する）／憶測d he may not have 十分な 資源s
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, who 舵輪／支配s the company behind the Call of 義務 franchise, 報道によれば wants to partner with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to buy TikTok if it is sold
The 推論する／理由 O'Leary said he will only put up a fraction of the app's 現在の 価値（がある） is because he and others think the Chinese 政府 and/or ByteDance won't be willing to sell the rabidly successful algorithms that have made TikTok one of the most popular social マスコミ 壇・綱領・公約s in the world.
That means anyone who buys the app, 含むing Mr. Wonderful, will have to engineer new algorithms that aren't 保証（人）d to be as good.?
And O'Leary may not even have the 資源s to buy TikTok, the New York 地位，任命する 報告（する）／憶測d.?
However, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick -?who helped 仲買人 the $69 billion sale of his company to Microsoft last year - may have the 資源s to buy the Chinese app and the 科学技術の know how ーするために create a new algorithm for it.
Kotick floated the idea of buying TikTok in March to 非常に／多数の people at a dinner, the 塀で囲む Street 定期刊行物 報告（する）／憶測d, with one of them 存在 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.?
Steve Mnuchin (pictured) is uniquely positioned as an anti-TikTok 政府 公式の／役人 during the Trump years who now wants to buy the app and make it his own
Although 成果／努力s to 禁止（する） TikTok began under former 大統領 Trump, 大統領 Joe Biden is the one who 最終的に 調印するd TikTok's 可能性のある banishment from the US
Former 大統領 Trump (pictured April 25 before hush money 裁判，公判 kicked off for the day) has flip-flopped on the TikTok 禁止（する）, once supporting it as 指揮官-in-長，指導者 but now railing against Biden for 存在? '責任がある banning TikTok'
Jeffrey Yass, 創立者 of Susquehanna International Group, is a sleeper 選ぶ to buy TikTok
Beyond?Altman's $2 billion 逮捕する 価値（がある）, he is an attractive partner in the 企て，努力，提案 to acquire TikTok because he could give the 結局の US 見解／翻訳／版 of the app a 長，率いる start in training its AI models.
Former 大統領 Trump's 財務省 長官 Steve Mnuchin surprised many when he also joined the growing fray of 利益／興味d 買い手s last month.
Mnuchin, an 投資 銀行業者 at Goldman Sachs for 17 years before his pivot to politics, is in the throes of building up an 投資家 group to buy TikTok through his 基金 Liberty 戦略の 資本／首都.?
Mnuchin is in the unique position of having been a 重要な player in the Trump 行政's 成果／努力 to 禁止（する） TikTok years ago, who now wants to corner the market of endless, mindless scrolling.
A sleeper 選ぶ to buy TikTok has to 含む 億万長者 Susquehanna 創立者 Jeffrey Yass, who already owns 15% of ByteDance and is 報道によれば 紅潮／摘発する with cash.
The （警察，軍隊などの）本部 of Byt eDance, the parent company of ビデオ 株ing app TikTok, is seen in Beijing on September 16, 2020
TikTok's offices at The Sorting Office at the Docklands in Dublin
Google, which likely has the 資源s and incentive to buy out TikTok to 除去する them as a competitor, its that very incentive that makes it いっそう少なく likely the search engine company will be a serious 競争相手, 専門家s say
Meta is embroiled in an 独占禁止の 訴訟 from the （日）公正取引委員会（米）連邦取引委員会 over its supposed 違法な 購入（する） of Instagram and WhatsApp, making CEO 示す Zuckerberg another ありそうもない 競争相手 to buy out TikTok
加える, Susquehanna's 抱擁する advantage is that it may have 接近 to an 早期に 見解／翻訳／版 of the precious TikTok algorithm, the New York 地位，任命する 報告（する）／憶測d.
As of now, there appears to be a budding four-way war の中で the 最高の rich to acquire TikTok, but there are other players who aren't likely to 参加する in a possible sale.
A former 司法（官） Department 公式の／役人 told CNN that the Biden 行政's 厳しい 姿勢 on monopolies could 妨げる companies like?アマゾン, Microsoft, Google or M eta from stepping in to buy one of their biggest competitors: if just to 避ける the 頭痛 of 政府 訴訟s.
'If you were to say, like, an Intel, or a Cisco, maybe Oracle, I don't know. If you were to tell me it's Verizon, or AT&T, maybe it's not as big of a problem,' the 公式の／役人 said.
Still, a sale is far from a certainty, given that TikTok will 問題／発行する a 法廷，裁判所 challenge to the 法律 脅すing its 存在 in the US, a company spokesperson told DailyMail.com.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew also 確認するd that the company will be 告訴するing in a ビデオ he 地位，任命するd on the social マスコミ 壇・綱領・公約, confidently （人命などを）奪う，主張するing?'残り／休憩（する） 保証するd, we aren't going anywhere.'
