India, Feb. 11 -- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in an internal message to the staff that the board has no interest in Elon Musk's $97.4 billion offer to purchase the artificial intelligence company.
This comes as the Tesla (TSLA) owner along with investment firm Vy Capital, his AI company xAI, and Hollywood power broker Ari Emanuel, led the bid to take control of OpenAI and steer it back to a non-profit organization.
Altman swiftly dismissed the offer in a post on X/Twitter, stating, "No thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want."
In response, the SpaceX owner fired back, calling Altman a "swindler", reigniting tensions between the two tech leaders. Musk has been a vocal critic of OpenAI's shift toward commercializa...