OpenAI's board has not yet received a formal bid from an Elon Musk-led consortium, although a lawyer for the billionaire said the offer had been sent to OpenAI's outside counsel. A day after Musk publicized a bid to offer $97.

In an interview OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed Elon Musk's unsolicited bid for OpenAI's nonprofit as 'an attempt to slow [OpenAI] down.'

Sam Altman is leaving no room for doubt about his views on an Elon Musk-led bid to take control of OpenAI. In a letter to OpenAI staff Monday, the CEO put the words “bid” and “deal” in scare quotes and said the startup’s board has no interest in the offer.