Altman and Musk were OpenAI’s founding co-chairs in 2015, but their relationship has devolved into name-calling, lawsuits and now a near $100 billion bid from Musk for OpenAI.

Elon Musk and a group of investors have submitted an unsolicited bid of $97.4 billion to take control of the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, OpenAI.

A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk is offering $97.4 billion to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI, upping the stakes in his battle with Sam Altman over the company behind ChatGPT.