The chief executive of ChatGPT-owner OpenAI says it is “not for sale” after a $97.4bn (£78.4bn) takeover bid from a consortium of investors led by Elon Musk.
Sam Altman, who co-founded OpenAI with Musk before a public falling out led to Musk’s departure, was speaking at the AI Action Summit in Paris.
“We are an unusual organisation and we have this mission of making AGI (artificial general intelligence) benefit all of humanity, and we are here to do that,” Altman said in an on-stage interview.
When asked to define AGI, Altman said “most people use it to mean, like, really strong, powerful AI systems”.
Musk’s attorney, Marc Toberoff, confirmed he had submitted the bid for all OpenAI’s assets to its board on Monday.
Earlier, in response to the move, Altman posted on Musk’s social media platform X: “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want”.