"The guy that works for me is great, everything is a coincidence, we were just trying to be generous, of course we're acting with integrity and would never do anything bad." - the least surprising CEO PR statement ever.

He also decided that it was appropriate to say "The team threatened us with unfounded accusations of plagarism." Which has to be the absolute height of irony on both the counts of plagiarism and threats given that OpenAI has effectively admitted to likely plagiarism with their deliberate non-answers, and explicitly admitted to threatening them.