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Sam Altman is throwing a party to celebrate OpenAI’s GPT-5.5.
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Altman said Elon Musk could come “if he wanted to.”
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The two artificial intelligence leaders have long feuded and are currently locked in a federal legal battle.
After a court battle this week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a surprising, if not loud, gesture to his rival Elon Musk on Saturday.
OpenAI plans to hold a small celebration on May 5 to celebrate the release of its latest model, GPT-5.5. Altman shared an online form for those interested in RSVPing and said OpenAI’s coding agency Codex will help the company select people from the responses.
Registration closed quickly, and Ultraman later said he planned to host a bigger party in the future.
Musk is unlikely to attend one of these limited invitations, but Altman said at X that his former OpenAI co-founder “can come if he wants to.”
“The world needs more love,” Altman added.
Days earlier, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who is presiding over the legal fight, warned the two tech executives to “rein in their tendency to use social media to make things worse outside the courtroom.”
Musk and Altman have been locked in an ideological battle for years.
The two tech tycoons co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but Musk left in 2018 after disagreements over the company’s direction and leadership, particularly on security.
Since then, Musk has repeatedly criticized OpenAI, particularly what he described as a shift away from an open-source nonprofit mission to one focused on commercialization and profit while launching his own competing artificial intelligence company, xAI.
Their rivalry has escalated from public attacks to a serious legal dispute. In March 2024, Musk sued OpenAI, Altman and other co-founders over the company’s direction. Musk said OpenAI and its other founders violated the original agreement.
The dispute came to a high-profile federal trial in Oakland in late April, where Musk and Altman are currently testifying. The proceedings had become tense, with Musk clashing with OpenAI’s lawyers before a judge intervened.
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