OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told staff in a message that the company’s board of directors intends to make clear it has no interest in Elon Musk’s “supposed bid”, the Information reported on Monday.
Earlier in the day, a consortium led by Elon Musk said on Monday it had offered $97.4 billion to buy the non-profit that controls OpenAI, another salvo in the billionaire’s fight to block the artificial intelligence startup from transitioning to a for-profit firm.
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Musk’s bid is likely to ratchet up longstanding tensions with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman over the future of the ChatGPT maker, which is at the heart of a boom in generative AI technology. Altman on Monday promptly posted on X: “No, thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
Musk co-founded OpenAI with Altman in 2015 as a non-profit but left before the company took off. He then founded the competing AI startup xAI in 2023.
