While Musk and Altman bicker on X and in court, the race to develop better AI models continues. And while they fight, open-source models pose a growing threat. Last month, Chinese competitor DeepSeek rocked markets when it debuted a model that was developed open-source on a much smaller budget than OpenAI or Google could manage.

The nonprofit that controls OpenAI is not for sale, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Reuters on Tuesday (February 11) when asked to comment about Elon Musk's offer to buy it. US says will levy tariffs on Mexico,