Elon Musk asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help bankroll a multibillion-dollar bid to take over OpenAI earlier this year, according to court filings reported by CNBC. The request surfaced in documents filed as part of Musk’s ongoing legal battle with OpenAI in federal court in Northern California.

Musk has taken up legal arms against Sam Altman’s OpenAI, not only trying to acquire it in a hostile takeover, but claim the startup breached its contract