A team of investors led by Elon Musk made a $ 97.6 billion offer to buy Openai on Monday. The news comes by Musk’s lawyer, Mark Tobrov, who Confirm reports With Wall Street.
The unwanted offer is the latest escalating from Musk in his war with co -founder Sam German, as Altman is looking to take the ChatGPT maker. Musk was already involved in a legal dispute with Openai, where he made a judicial order in 2024 against his efforts to move away from the non -profit situation. The Musk team puts this step as an attempt to maintain the focus of the first source of the institution.
“It is time for Openai to return to the open power that focuses on safety for good,” Musk told the newspaper “Magazine”, by Tobrov. “We will make sure that this happens.” AI, Xai, is involved in the offer, which leads to speculation that a successful acquisition may find that the two companies are integrating.
Altman has responded appropriately – for display Through the postpartent post xWriting, “(n), thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $ 9.74 billion if you want.” The famous musk bought Twitter for $ 44 billion in 2022.