When Musk bid $97.4B for OpenAI, Altman's $9.74B Twitter counter became tech's priciest troll
nikola_mr64990 · x · 2026-10-04
A recap of Elon Musk's failed $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI: Sam Altman's reply — "no thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want" — was exactly one tenth of the offer. In a subsequent interview, Altman suggested Musk was likely just trying to slow OpenAI down and said he doesn't think Musk is a happy person.
The poster calls it the most expensive troll in tech history: Altman didn't just reject the bid, he turned a $97 billion legal play into a meme. Days later the board formally rejected the offer, and the internet only remembers the $9.74 billion comeback.
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