Gen Z founders of OpenChat reportedly reject Elon Musk offer as their AI challenges leading models
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Gulf-based coverage reports that young developers William Chen and Guan Wang turned down a multi‑million‑dollar offer from Elon Musk after their OpenChat AI system gained traction. The article says OpenChat is now beating models from OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek in some benchmark comparisons, underscoring how lean open‑source teams can still compete with heavily funded frontier‑model labs.
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