Trump insider Musk adds unsolicited bid to pending lawsuit, social media trolling of OpenAI, a company he helped launch in 2015

Sam Altman said that Elon Musk’s “insecurity” was a factor in his decision to make a hostile $97.4 billion bid to take control of OpenAI.

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 in Musk's other businesses.

Elon Musk co-founded OpenAI with Sam Altman and a group of others in the tech realm in 2015, but left in 2018.

Sam Altman is pushing back on an unsolicited bid made by Elon Musk and a group of investors to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI. The $97.4 billion bid, made by Musk's AI company, xAI, and backed by several investment firms, deepens the ongoing battle between Musk and Altman over OpenAI, which they co-founded in 2015.

In an interview with Bloomberg, Altman says OpenAI is “not for sale” and the bid is the latest of “tactics, many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff, now this” for the “competitor” Musk to “slow us down.

Elon Musk continued to make announcements that stopped people in their tracks by submitting an offer to acquire OpenAI. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup responsible for building ChatGPT is one of the most closely watched companies in the tech space,

On Feb. 10, a group of investors led by Elon Musk offered to buy OpenAI's nonprofit arm for $97 billion. OpenAI and its CEO Sam