Elon Musk will withdraw his nearly $100 billion bid for OpenAI if it remains a nonprofit, lawyers say

In court documents, lawyers of the richest man in the world assure that he will abandon his buy-back proposal to almost 100 billion dollars if OpenAI renounces changing status. But... why?

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Why Elon Musk offered to buy the OpenAI nonprofit

Elon Musk in the Oval Office of the White House on February 11, 2025. | Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s been a busy week for Elon Musk. He says he’s saving taxpayers billions of dollars (though outlays from the Treasury Department are public and make it pretty clear he hasn’t); he bragged that he fed USAID “into the woodchipper,” an aide on his Department of Government Efficiency was revealed to have said this summer to “norma…

But only on the condition that OpenAI promises to remain a nonprofit.

Elon Musk to withdraw bid for OpenAI if its board halts for-profit conversion

Elon Musk to withdraw bid for OpenAI if its board halts for-profit conversion

Musk says he’ll withdraw $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI if it remains nonprofit

It follows recent public beef between the tech billionaire and OpenAI founder Sam Altman