Musk’s consortium, which includes VCs like Joe Lonsdale’s 8VC and SpaceX investor Vy Capital, is offering exactly $97.375 billion to buy out OpenAI, and says in the letter 100% of the purchase price “would be paid in cash.”

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.