Sam Altman: OpenAI is not for sale, even for Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer
On Monday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly rejected an unsolicited Elon Musk-led attempt to purchase OpenAI for $97.4 billion. The Wall Street Journal reports that the offer was backed by Musk’s own company, xAI, in addition to several investors Musk’s other businesses.
After the Wall Street Journal broke news of the purchase offer Monday afternoon, Altman shifted the offer’s decimal point in a joke publicly posted on X, saying, “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
Musk—who recently changed his X name to “Harry Bōlz” as a reference to the nickname for a teenage member of his DOGE group that is currently embroiled in what some legal experts consider a constitutional crisis for the US federal government—replied to Altman on X with one word: “Swindler.”
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