Elon Musk offers $97.4 billion to buy OpenAI, Sam Altman says ‘no thank you’

A consortium led by billionaire Elon Musk has made a staggering $97.4 billion offer to acquire the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, intensifying his ongoing battle against the artificial intelligence startup’s transition to a for-profit model. The bid, announced on Monday, marks a new chapter in the tensions between Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, who promptly dismissed the offer with a quip on X, saying, “No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”