Sam Altman, the high-profile chief executive of of OpenAI, has married his partner Oliver Mulherin at his ‘$43 million Hawaii estate.’
Stunning photos of the intimate ceremony in Kailua-Kona, on Hawaii Island were circulated on social media on Thursday. Altman confirmed the happy news to NBC.
The pictures show the loved-up pair all-in-white exchanging rings at the alter.
Another shows that couple stomping on a glass wrapped in a napkin, a traditional Jewish wedding tradition.
Altman, 38, hit headlines late last year after being turfed out of OpenAI, the company responsible for ChatGPT, only to be rehired days later after a staff revolt.
Sam Altman, (left) CEO of OpenAI, has married his partner Oliver Mulherin (right)
Sam Altman’s $43 million estate in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii
The CEO had previously kept a much lower profile but ramped up his public appearances last year, including testifying in congress about the future of AI.
The photographs circulated of the wedding circulated online were confirmed as authentic by Business Insider, and appear to have been screenshotted from Altman’s private Instagram story.
Mulherin, is a software engineer by profession and previously worked at Meta.
He was born in Australia and completed a bachelor’s in computer science from the University of Melbourne.
He also previously embarked on a number of AI projects from language detection to video games throughout his time at university in Australia.
According to the New York Times, Altman and Mulherin live together in San Francisco and frequent a a 25-year-old ranch that has been ‘remodeled to look both folksy and contemporary’ in Napa, California, for regular weekends away.
Altman also expressed his desire to have children with his husband in a previous interview with the New York Magazine in September 2023.
Altman, 38, hit the headlines late last year after being turfed out of OpenAI , the company responsible for ChatGPT , only to be rehired days later after a staff revolt
The couple have made high-profile public appearances together, including at a White House state dinner last year
The couple have made high-profile public appearances together, including at a White House state dinner last year.
Altman co-founded OpenAI as a nonprofit organization in 2015 with several tech billionaires, including Elon Musk.
In April, more than 25,000 people signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause in AI research.
At the time, Altman said he agreed with calls for caution, but he disagreed with the ‘technical nuance’ contained in the open letter. He did not sign it.
Reports have claimed that several employees wrote a letter to the OpenAI board before Altman was removed from OpenAI.
The letter is said to detail how Altman’s company was working on new AI discoveries, one of which was named Q, that were dangerous, and serious risks were involved with commercializing technologies whose potential consequences the company did not firmly grasp.
Reuters reported that Q* is part of the reason Altman was fired from OpenAI, due to the new system’s advanced abilities.
Sources said Q* was already acing math tests, while the last version of ChatGPT, GPT-4, still struggles with high school exams.
GPT-4 launched in March, giving it time to advance, while Q* has yet to be confirmed.
Sources also claimed Q* could use non-linear methods such as Tree-of-Thoughts, Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), Process-Supervised Reward Models (PRMs), and a learning algorithm.
However, OpenAI staff are said to believe that Q* could be the breakthrough that enables the development of AGI.
OpenAI has defined AGI as ‘AI systems that are generally smarter than humans.’
By Daily Mail Online, January 12, 2024
