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 offered to buy the non-profit part of OpenAI for $97.4 billion. The pitch, which Musk says is backed by a group of investors, comes as OpenAI is trying to shift to being for-profit, raise tens of billions, and spend them on the data center initiative Stargate.