A group of investors led by Elon Musk has said it is offering more than 97 billion dollars (£78.3 billion) to buy OpenAI, escalating a legal dispute with the artificial intelligence company that Mr Musk helped found.
Mr Musk and his own AI start-up, xAI, and a consortium of investment firms say they want to buy the ChatGPT-maker and revert it back to its original charitable mission as a non-profit research lab, according to Musk lawyer Marc Toberoff.
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OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman quickly rejected the deal on Mr Musk’s social media platform X, saying “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want”.
Mr Musk bought Twitter, now called X, for 44 billion dollars in 2022.
