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.

Elon Musk’s not-so-friendly bid to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion caught many in the tech world by surprise, but it’s just the latest shot in a yearslong battle between Musk and Sam Altman, who co-founded OpenAI together nearly 10 years ago.

Sam Altman is pushing back on an unsolicited bid made by Elon Musk and a group of investors to buy the nonprofit that controls OpenAI. The $97.4 billion bid, made by Musk's AI company, xAI, and backed by several investment firms, deepens the ongoing battle between Musk and Altman over OpenAI, which they co-founded in 2015.