India, Aug. 22 -- Elon Musk tried to enlist Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in his audacious $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI earlier this year, according to court filings unsealed Thursday.
The revelation emerged as part of Musk's ongoing legal battle with OpenAI, which he co-founded in 2015 before becoming one of its fiercest critics.
The filing states that in February, Musk and his AI startup xAI approached Zuckerberg with a letter of intent seeking potential financing arrangements.
Neither Meta nor Zuckerberg signed on, with the filing noting that Meta was already investing heavily in its own artificial intelligence efforts, including offering packages of $100 million or more to recruit leading AI researchers and reportedly attempting to...