OpenAI shouldn’t accept Elon Musk’s $97 billion bid to buy it

The eye-popping bid is a cheekily cheap bid, which should discount it from being taken seriously. But with Musk near the Trump White House, what happens next is anyone’s guess.

Let’s say you own one of the most valuable homes in a lush, gated community that has been earmarked as a future point of growth for decades to come. One day, a letter appears in your mailbox, offering to buy your property for between a third and two-thirds of its value on the open market.