A consortium of investors led by Elon Musk has presented an offer to buy OpenAI - the company that created ChatGPT - for 97.4 billion dollars, the Wall Street Journal.

The offer, according to the same publication quoted by Negócios newspaperwas submitted to OpenAI's board of directors by Marc Toberoff, Musk's lawyer.

"It's time for OpenAI to return to being a force for good in security-focused open source as it once was," Musk said in a statement provided by Toberoff, quoted by the WSJ. "We're going to make sure that happens."

The unsolicited offer increases the rivalry between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, who plans to convert the company into a for-profit entity and be part of the 500 billion dollar investment in artificial intelligence (AI) announced by the White House under the name Stargate.

Altman has already responded to the offer, rejecting it through X, the former Twitter owned by Musk. "No thanks, but we can buy Twitter for 9.74 billion dollars if you want," Altman wrote ironically.

The two entrepreneurs co-founded OpenAI in 2015 as a charitable organization, and Altman then set up a subsidiary to attract investors. Since then, they have disagreed about the direction of the company.

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