PANews reported on February 11 that according to the Wall Street Journal, a group of investors led by Elon Musk proposed to acquire the non-profit organization that controls OpenAI for $97.4 billion , hoping to restore it to a "public welfare organization with open source and security as its core." In response, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded on the X platform: "No, thank you, but if you want, we can acquire Twitter for $9.74 billion ."

The acquisition proposal was led by Musk's AI company xAI, and investors included Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Atreides Management, Vy Capital, 8VC and Ari Emanuel's investment fund. OpenAI did not respond.