CEO & Co-Founder of Open AI Sam Altman takes part in a panel at a business day on the sidelines of the AI Summit in Paris with French junior minister Clara Chappaz.

Elon Musk has accused Sam Altman, the OpenAI chief, of being a “swindler” in an escalating public spat between the tech bosses over artificial intelligence.

Altman rejected a $97.4 billion bid led by Musk to buy the non-profit that controls the company — which the pair co-founded in 2015 — and took a swipe at his rival in a post on X.

“No thank you but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” Altman said of Musk’s offer, mocking the slump in the value of the social media platform since he bought it for $44 billion in 2022.

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