OpenAI CEO Reportedly Turned to a Seattle Startup in Quest to Challenge Spacex on the Space Data Frontier
4 Dec 2025
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GEEKWIRE - OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is thinking about expanding into the final frontier for data centers, and his efforts to follow through on that thought reportedly turned into talks with Stoke Space, a rocket startup headquartered just south of Seattle.
Altman looked into putting together the funding to invest in Stoke Space, with an eye toward either forging a partnership or ending up with a controlling stake in the company, according to an account published by The Wall Street Journal. The discussions reportedly began this summer and picked up in the fall, but are said to be no longer active.
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Note: Stoke Space is headquartered in Kent.
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