Billionaire Elon Musk tried to convince Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to get behind a joint purchase bid for OpenAI earlier this year, according to court documents.

Elon Musk’s rejected $97.4 billion bid to acquire OpenAI, with an unusual outreach to Mark Zuckerberg, highlights tensions between nonprofit ideals and profit-driven AI ambitions.

Evidence that Musk was quietly trying to persuade one of OpenAI’s chief rivals to help him acquire the startup could undercut the billionaire’s legal claims that Altman’s partnership with