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Sam Altman Eyes Rocket Venture Amid AI Competition

12/5/2025

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Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, is exploring options to build or acquire a rocket company and has approached Stoke Space for collaboration, including a multibillion-dollar investment.
Discussions with Stoke Space have stalled.
Altman, who co-founded OpenAI with Elon Musk, voiced concerns about OpenAI's response to competition, calling a "code red" after Google’s Gemini surpassed ChatGPT.
Altman called Gemini a great model but said ChatGPT must improve to keep pace.

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Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, is exploring options to build or acquire a rocket company and has approached Stoke Space for collaboration, including a multibillion-dollar investment.
Discussions with Stoke Space have stalled.
Altman, who co-founded OpenAI with Elon Musk, voiced concerns about OpenAI's response to competition, calling a "code red" after Google’s Gemini surpassed ChatGPT.
Altman called Gemini a great model but said ChatGPT must improve to keep pace.