Updated Fri, Feb 6 2026 4:37 PM EST Key Points CEO Sam Altman and several OpenAI executives took to social media this week to tackle concerns about the company's Nvidia partnership, litigation with Musk, research operations and swipes from Anthropic. The company has been facing mounting scrutiny since making more than $1.4 trillion worth of infrastructure deal commitments last year. "I don't get where all this insanity is coming from," Altman wrote in a post on X. Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI Inc., during a media tour of the Stargate AI data center in Abilene, Texas, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2025. Kyle Grillot | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ahead of the Super Bowl on Sunday, OpenAI has been busy playing defense. CEO Sam Altman and a wave of senior executives at the artificial intelligence startup took to social media this week to try and dispel concerns about the company's partnerships, litigation, research operations and swipes from its biggest rival, Anthropic. In a podcast appearance on Thursday, Altman said he often feels like there is a "crazy hurricane" turning around the company, and sometimes his leadership team has to try and "correct" narratives. "It is a strange way to live," Altman said. "I don't know of any private company that has ever been so in the news and so under a microscope, and at some level, it's frustrating." OpenAI has become one of the fastest-growing commercial entities on the planet since the launch of its chatbot ChatGPT in 2022. But the company has been under intense scrutiny since it inked more than $1.4 trillion worth of infrastructure deals last year, including a $100 billion partnership with Nvidia that rocked the tech sector. Questions about the state of that partnership began swirling a week ago after the Wall Street Journal reported that the deal is "on ice." An OpenAI spokesperson told the Journal that the company is "actively working through details" of the partnership. But speculation about a potential rift continued on Monday after Reuters reported that OpenAI is "unsatisfied" with some of Nvidia's chips. A spokesperson told CNBC that Nvidia "powers the vast majority of OpenAI's inference fleet and delivers the best performance per dollar for inference." The reports prompted Altman to weigh in directly. "We love working with NVIDIA and they make the best AI chips in the world. We hope to be a gigantic customer for a very long time," Altman wrote in a post on X on Monday. "I don't get where all this insanity is coming from." Sachin Katti, the former Intel CTO who joined OpenAI in November to help build out its infrastructure, also shared a statement. He called OpenAI's work with Nvidia "foundational" in a post on X on Monday. "NVIDIA is our most important partner for both training and inference, and our entire compute fleet runs on NVIDIA GPUs," Katti wrote. "This is not a vendor relationship. It is deep, ongoing co-design."  CNBC has reached out to OpenAI for additional comment. Elon Musk waves to the crowd during the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 22, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters By Tuesday, Altman had turned his attention to a different battle: OpenAI's ongoing litigation with Elon Musk. Musk co-founded OpenAI in 2015, departed the company in 2018 and went on to start a competitor called xAI in 2023. He sued OpenAI and Altman for alleged breach of contract and financial damages the following year. OpenAI has dismissed Musk's efforts as part of a "campaign of harassment," and the case is expected to head to trial in April. "Really excited to get Elon under oath in a few months, Christmas in April!" Altman wrote in a post on X on Tuesday. Musk's xAI filed a separate lawsuit against OpenAI and Apple last year, alleging the two companies had engaged in an "anticompetitive scheme" to thwart rivals. Jason Kwon, OpenAI's chief strategy officer, called the lawsuit "frivolous" and shared several screenshots of new court filings in a post on X on Tuesday. The screenshots said that the only documents xAI has produced are "a handful of corporate policies," and that the company has "a widespread practice of using disappearing messaging tools like Signal and XChat." "New court filings show how Elon was engaging in some maximum truth deleting," Kwon wrote. "Makes you wonder what he is hiding." Read more CNBC tech news