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Why Musk may want to control OpenAI

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Elon Musk’s bid to take control of OpenAI is fanning the flames of a longtime feud with co-founder and CEO Sam Altman .

A consortium of investors led by Musk submitted a $97.4 billion bid to buy the assets of the nonprofit that controls OpenAI earlier this week .

Altman quickly pushed back, stating OpenAI was “not for sale”.

OpenAI ’s board chair called the offer “largely a distraction” Musk may also have an interest in OpenAI given the ChatGPT maker's dominance in the AI field as his own firm, xAI, fails to gain as much traction.

Analyst Dan Ives said, “This is apples to oranges” and that unlike now, he believed Musk was serious from the onset of the Twitter talks.