{"id":1120270,"date":"2026-01-31T19:30:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/7sAo9vxLcC2qmt9hxUGbN5"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:30:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T19:30:43","slug":"elon-musk-kicks-off-97-4-billion-effort-to-buy-openai-by-immediately-starting-social-media-beef-with-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elon-musk-kicks-off-97-4-billion-effort-to-buy-openai-by-immediately-starting-social-media-beef-with-sam-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk kicks off $97.4 billion effort to buy OpenAI by immediately starting social media beef with Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>A <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/tech\/elon-musk-openai-bid-4af12827\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Wall Street Journal<\/u><\/a> report says a group of investors led by X owner Elon Musk has made an offer to buy the non-profit organization that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Musk said in a statement that the offer was made in order to return OpenAI &#8220;to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We will make sure that happens,&#8221; but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seems determined to ensure it doesn&#8217;t happen.<\/p>\n<p>The offer to purchase OpenAI is the latest twist in a dispute that goes back almost a full year: <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/elon-musk-sues-openai-for-abandoning-its-principles-and-says-taking-microsofts-billions-has-set-the-founding-agreement-aflame\/\"><u>Musk sued OpenAI<\/u><\/a> in March, claiming the company had abandoned &#8220;its mission to develop AGI for the benefit of humanity&#8221; in exchange for the pursuit of profit. OpenAI was founded as a non-profit but set up a for-profit subsidiary in 2019 after Musk&#8217;s departure, and the money has been flowing free and fast ever since.<\/p>\n<p>That all sounds noble and altruistic, but in December 2024 OpenAI released a statement saying Musk had <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/openai-claims-elon-musk-demanded-absolute-control-and-to-be-ceo-while-also-agreeing-to-ditch-its-non-profit-status-back-in-2017-despite-him-now-suing-it-for-turning-decidedly-for-profit\/\"><u>pushed a for-profit structure<\/u><\/a> for OpenAI in 2017, prior to his departure, and had demanded majority equity in and the role of CEO of the for-profit division. OpenAI ultimately rejected the offer, telling Musk it worried that &#8220;as the company makes genuine progress towards AGI, you will choose to retain your absolute control of the company despite current intent to the contrary.&#8221; Musk then proposed a deal between OpenAI and Tesla in order to facilitate fundraising; shortly after that offer was rejected, Musk resigned. In 2023 he founded his own competing AI venture, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/tag\/xai\/\"><u>xAI<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The whole thing brings to mind Musk&#8217;s infamous Twitter fiasco of 2022, when the world&#8217;s richest man made an <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/elon-musk-offers-to-buy-twitter\/\"><u>off-the-cuff offer to buy Twitter<\/u><\/a> for $44 billion and then did his best to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/elon-musk-tries-to-bail-on-twitter-purchase\/\"><u>get out of it<\/u><\/a> before months of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/twitter-sues-elon-musk\/\"><u>legal wrangling<\/u><\/a> arm-twisted him into <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/elon-musk-is-buying-twitter-again-for-real-this-time\/\"><u>closing the deal<\/u><\/a>. But the big difference in the OpenAI offer is that it&#8217;s not just social media dick-swinging that&#8217;s spiralled out of control. The WSJ says the proposal is backed by several big-money investors, and that means two things: It&#8217;s a serious offer, and it (maybe) won&#8217;t be derailed by Musk&#8217;s erratic behavior.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to say how this all might work out. $97.4 billion is an awful lot of money, but a recent funding round put OpenAI&#8217;s valuation at <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/openai-talks-investment-round-valuing-it-up-340-billion-wsj-reports-2025-01-30\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>$300 billion<\/u><\/a>, and the company is also leading a joint venture called <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/stargate-is-now-a-real-thing-but-sadly-not-a-portal-to-an-alien-planet-a-bunch-of-tech-companies-plan-to-spend-usd500-billion-building-ai-data-centers\/\"><u>Stargate<\/u><\/a> that will see the US government sink $500 billion into the development of AI infrastructure. Numbers basically have no meaning at that point, except to the extent that a sub-$100 billion offer may not be enough to get the job done, particularly given Musk&#8217;s handling of Twitter, now called X, which has <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/musk-reportedly-tells-x-staff-were-barely-breaking-even-as-the-big-banks-start-getting-antsy-over-their-debt\/\"><u>struggled badly<\/u><\/a> under his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>If the deal does eventually go through, it would presumably leave Musk with a significant and possibly controlling interest in OpenAi; how that would impact OpenAI\u2014whether it might be merged with xAI, somehow intertwined with Tesla and\/or SpaceX, or just left to be mauled by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/ais-sputnik-moment-china-based-deepseeks-open-source-models-may-be-a-real-threat-to-the-dominance-of-openai-meta-and-nvidia\/\"><u>DeepSeek<\/u><\/a>\u2014is anyone&#8217;s guess.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the future holds, it already looks like personal beef will be a big and entertaining part of it. Altman alluded to X&#8217;s financial troubles and post-Musk value plunge in his response to the offer, writing, &#8220;No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.&#8221; In a one-word response, Musk called Altman a &#8220;swindler.&#8221; He later posted a brief video clip of Altman testifying before the US senate, calling him &#8220;<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1889070627908145538\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Scam Altman<\/u><\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1889062013109703009\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:43.02%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"GgyzWa4fpNEHaBpzUPfQqG\" name=\"swindler\" alt=\"no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want - Swindler\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/elon-musk-kicks-off-97-4-billion-effort-to-buy-openai-by-immediately-starting-social-media-beef-with-sam-altman.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"826\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Elon Musk\/Sam Altman (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"348fd0ff-cb4b-4b29-8e6e-9b326778eacc\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/elon-musk-kicks-off-97-4-billion-effort-to-buy-openai-by-immediately-starting-social-media-beef-with-sam-altman-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"348fd0ff-cb4b-4b29-8e6e-9b326778eacc\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<strong><br \/><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/software\/ai\/elon-musk-kicks-off-usd97-4-billion-effort-to-buy-openai-by-immediately-starting-social-media-beef-with-sam-altman\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Wall Street Journal report says a group of investors led by X owner Elon Musk has made an offer to buy the non-profit organization that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion. Musk said in a statement that the offer was made in order to return OpenAI &#8220;to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was,&#8221; adding, &#8220;We will make sure that happens,&#8221; but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seems determined to ensure it doesn&#8217;t happen. The offer to purchase OpenAI is the latest twist in a dispute that goes back almost a full year: Musk sued OpenAI in March, claiming the company had abandoned &#8220;its mission to develop AGI for the benefit of humanity&#8221; in exchange for the pursuit of profit. OpenAI was founded as&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/elon-musk-kicks-off-97-4-billion-effort-to-buy-openai-by-immediately-starting-social-media-beef-with-sam-altman\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[1997,1622],"class_list":["post-1120270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-ai","tag-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elon Musk kicks off $97.4 billion effort to buy OpenAI by immediately starting social media beef with Sam Altman | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Wall Street Journal report says a 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