In an interview with Bloomberg, Altman says OpenAI is “not for sale” and the bid is the latest of “tactics, many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff, now this” for the “competitor” Musk to “slow us down.

Last March, Musk filed a lawsuit claiming OpenAI, a global leader in artificial intelligence innovation which has developed the ChatGPT chatbot, DALL-E image generator and other advanced AI-driven tools, breached promises made in its founding documents and prioritizes profit motive over serving the public good.

Elon Musk has earned his fair share of detractors in and out of politics this year, but it is OpenAI chief Sam Altman who seems to have best mastered the Musk-belittling soundbite. Altman and Musk co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit in 2015,