United Kingdom, Feb. 11 -- ChatGPT has rejected a consortium takeover bid led by Elon Musk.

The world's richest man - who co-founded OpenAI with chief executive Sam Altman in 2015 as a non-profit company and left in 2018 - offered $97.4bn for "all assets" of the artificial intelligence tool on Monday (10.02.25).

However, the OpenAI boss declined and instead poked fun at Musk in offering to buy his social media platform.

He wrote on Musk's X platform: "No thank you, but we will buy [X] for $9.74 billion if you want."

Despite Altman saying no to the bid, the company may agree to a sale if the offer is increased.

Musk's move comes as he and Altman are in an ongoing legal row.

The Tesla and Space X founder has accused OpenAI of breachin...