How Elon Musk $97.4 billion bid complicates matters for OpenAI

PARIS (AP) — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has dismissed a $97.4 billion takeover bid led by rival Elon Musk, but the unsolicited offer could complicate Altman’s push to transform the maker of ChatGPT into a for-profit company.

“We are not for sale,” Altman said Tuesday at an artificial intelligence summit in Paris.

Musk’s bid, announced Monday, is the latest in a bitter years-long battle with Altman over control of the AI startup they both helped found a decade ago as a nonprofit and is now a leading force in the global boom surrounding generative AI technology.

“OpenAI has a mission,” Altman told France’s AI minister in an on-stage discussion Tuesday mobbed

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