Newly unsealed court documents from Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI reveal that Musk texted Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on February 3, 2025, asking if he would be open to jointly bidding on OpenAI’s intellectual property, with Zuckerberg responding “Want to discuss live?” before neither he nor Meta ultimately signed the letter of intent. One week later, Musk’s consortium submitted an unsolicited $97.4B bid to acquire the nonprofit entity controlling OpenAI, a move Musk’s attorney framed as an effort to block OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit company. Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in which he is seeking up to $134B in damages, is set to begin jury selection on April 27 in Oakland, California.
