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Elon Musk-led group makes $US97.4B bid for control of OpenAI, WSJ reports
By ReutersPublished: February 10, 2025 at 4:16PM EST
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during the 60th presidential inauguration in the rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025. (Photographer: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (Chip Somodevilla/Bloomberg)
A consortium of investors led by billionaire Elon Musk is offering US$97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
The offer intensifies a longstanding battle between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Musk over the future of the startup at the heart of a boom in generative AI technology.
Musk’s attorney, Marc Toberoff, said he submitted the bid to OpenAI’s board on Monday, according to the report.
“It’s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was,” the WSJ cited Musk as saying in a statement provided by Toberoff. “We will make sure that happens.”
OpenAI, Musk, Toberoff and OpenAI-backer Microsoft MSFT.Odid not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment.
The bid is being backed by Musk’s AI company xAI, which could merge with OpenAI following a deal, the WSJ reported.
Musk cofounded OpenAI with Altman in 2015, but left before the company took off. He later founded the competing AI startup xAI in 2023.
OpenAI is now trying to transition into a for-profit from a nonprofit entity, which it says is required to secure the capital needed for developing the best artificial intelligence models.
Last year, Musk filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman, saying that OpenAI’s founders originally approached him to fund a nonprofit focused on developing AI to benefit humanity, but that it was now focused on making money.
Reporting by Arsheeya Bajwa in Bengaluru
Musk-led group makes $97.4 billion bid for control of OpenAI
A consortium of investors led by billionaire Elon Musk is offering US$97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
