Elon Musk is leading a group of investors to buy OpenAI, the company behind the wildly popular ChatGPT, from his former business partner Sam Altman who wants to turn it into a nonprofit. Musk offered close to $100 billion to take control of the company,

In a court filing on Wednesday, the company said Mr. Musk’s bid contradicted legal claims the billionaire made in a lawsuit he brought against OpenAI last year. OpenAI argued in its filing that Mr. Musk said in his lawsuit the assets must remain with the nonprofit and could not be transferred to another entity for public gain.

Last March, Musk filed a lawsuit claiming OpenAI, a global leader in artificial intelligence innovation which has developed the ChatGPT chatbot, DALL-E image generator and other advanced AI-driven tools, breached promises made in its founding documents and prioritizes profit motive over serving the public good.