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Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 19
Gwyneth Paltrow Plans Aug. 29 Dinner for Sam Altman as Her Firm Backs OpenAI
Updated
Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 19

Gwyneth Paltrow Plans Aug. 29 Dinner for Sam Altman as Her Firm Backs OpenAI

3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 19

Summary

  • Aug. 29 invitations are reportedly going out for a private, off-the-record dinner at Gwyneth Paltrow’s Hamptons home honoring OpenAI chief Sam Altman, according to Puck.
  • Kinship Ventures — the investment firm Paltrow launched in 2021 with Moj Mahdara — has backed OpenAI since 2023, and was reported that year to be raising a $75 million fund.
  • Paltrow has grown more public about AI’s role in her businesses, saying she uses the tools at Goop, while Goop Kitchen has leased space in Anthropic’s San Francisco headquarters.
  • The dinner adds to OpenAI’s widening ties to celebrity and consumer circles after the company earlier this year hired Charles Porch, described by Vanity Fair as a “celebrity whisperer.”

Insights

What secret tech alliances are being forged behind closed doors at Gwyneth Paltrow’s exclusive Hamptons dinner for Sam Altman?
Why is OpenAI increasingly using off-the-record celebrity gatherings to shield its massive expansion plans from public scrutiny?