Sam Altman, left, and Oliver Mulherin attend A Year In TIME at The Plaza Hotel on Dec. 12, 2023, in New York City.
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TIMESam Altman, the chief executive of buzzy artificial intelligence startup OpenAI, has reportedly married his partner Oliver Mulherin at what appears to be Altman’s Hawaiian estate. Photos of the small ceremony circulated on social media Thursday, their authenticity confirmed by Business Insider.
The background in the photos looks to be in Kailua-Kona, on Hawaii Island. Entrepreneur reported he bought a $43 million estate there in 2021. Altman confirmed the news of the wedding in a text to NBC News on Thursday, the outlet said.
Altman and Mulherin typically split their time between a mansion in San Francisco’s Russian Hill neighborhood and a ranch in Napa, according to a March profile of the tech exec in the New York Times. Altman, 38, is Jewish, and one of the wedding photos shows him and Mulherin stomping on what was likely glass, as is traditional in the religion.
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A well-connected tech investor in Silicon Valley and the CEO of OpenAI since 2019, Altman gained mainstream attention in 2023 as he opined about AI’s potential and spoke with politicians in Washington and abroad. In November, he was ousted from the company by its board of directors and then returned to the chief executive role within a week, after hundreds of employees threatened to quit.
Mulherin, according to his LinkedIn page, has worked in software engineering for several companies, most recently from 2020 to 2022 at Meta.
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