🙃 Elon Musk’s $100B mystery just backfired in court
What was supposed to be a power move is now looking… a bit messy.
• Back in Feb 2025, Elon Musk made a $97.4B bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit arm, claiming it was just to “set a fair market price” during its restructuring.
• Fast forward to court: Musk testifies (and casually admits xAI distilled OpenAI models 👀).
• Then comes his financial right-hand man, Jared Birchall… who basically says:
“I don’t remember”
“I’m not sure”
“I heard something somewhere”
• The problem?
Musk’s own lawyer brought up the $100B deal which gave OpenAI’s lawyers an
What was supposed to be a power move is now looking… a bit messy.
• Back in Feb 2025, Elon Musk made a $97.4B bid for OpenAI’s nonprofit arm, claiming it was just to “set a fair market price” during its restructuring.
• Fast forward to court: Musk testifies (and casually admits xAI distilled OpenAI models 👀).
• Then comes his financial right-hand man, Jared Birchall… who basically says:
“I don’t remember”
“I’m not sure”
“I heard something somewhere”
• The problem?
Musk’s own lawyer brought up the $100B deal which gave OpenAI’s lawyers an