Musk’s new takeover offer will substantially complicate any plans for the for-profit entity to purchase OpenAI’s assets from the nonprofit entity for $40 billion, or any price in that range. As I discussed above, it’s inherently speculative to come to an appropriate valuation of those assets, given how uncertain the future of AI is.

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.