2025-08-22T04:29:59z
- Elon Musk has called for an investment in Mark Zuckerberg's Open Ally, the startup said in a submission.
- Musk's $97.6 billion bid for Openai was rejected earlier this year.
- Meta is competing hard with Openai, poaching top talent and strengthening its large-scale language model.
Elon Musk wanted Mark Zuckerberg to join his bid to buy the open, the startup said.
In a court filing Thursday, Openai said Musk and his AI startup Xai had spoken to Meta's CEO about Openai's “potential funding arrangement or investment.” Neither Zuckerberg nor Mehta signed Musk's letter of intent, Filing said.
In February, Musk's lawyers confirmed that a Musk-led team of investors had filed a $97.6 billion bid to buy the ChatGPT maker. Openai ultimately rejected Musk's proposal.
Xai and Openai did not respond immediately to requests for comment. Meta declined to comment.
Musk and Openai CEO Sam Altman founded several other AI startups in 2015. In 2018, Musk left the company's board of directors in 2018.
Musk continued to release rival Xai. He sued Openai twice for breaching the establishment agreement by increasing commercial profits over public interest, and asked the court to stop attempts at restructuring. Musk was called the open chief “scam” in February.
Last week, two billionaires traded accusations on X Musk threatened to sue Apple. What he argues is the priority treatment of ChatGpt in the App Store rankings.
Over the past year, Meta has also doubled its efforts to improve its own large language model and Chatbot, competing with ChatGpt. Over the summer, Meta will launch an all-out talent war and participate by offering frontier racebour researchers such as Openai with a salary package of up to $100 million. Superintelligence Division. Recent well-known recruits include former Github chief Nat Friedman, former CEO of Scale AI, and former Openai researchers Shengjia Zhao, Shuchao Bi, Jiahui Yu and Hongyu Ren.
In the filing, Openai asked the judge to order Meta to take over documents related to communications with Musk or Xai.
