Overview
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Elon Musk can attend a planned GPT-5.5 celebration and shared a public signup form for people who want to go.
- The invite comes after court testimony where Musk said xAI partly trained its Grok chatbot using OpenAI outputs through “distillation,” which teaches a new model using answers from a stronger one.
- OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have moved to stop outsiders from distilling their systems, with some leaders labeling the practice theft of intellectual property.
- A U.S. district judge recently warned both executives to rein in social media posts during the case to avoid making the dispute worse outside court.
- OpenAI says GPT-5.5, released late last month, runs faster and handles complex multi-step tasks better, and Altman said the model even proposed short speeches and a human-led toast for its own event.