Vancouver superstar musician Grimes and Elon Musk, one of the world’s most famous tech billionaires, are dating.
The pair walked the red carpet at the swanky Met Gala in New York City on Monday evening.
The news was first reported by the New York Post’s Page Six celebrity gossip section.
Musk told reporters outside the gala that it was “date night” for the pair. He also revealed that he helped “sketch” Grimes’s dress, which had a fascinating bodice that appeared to include etched glass but it couldn’t be said for sure.
“A source tells us the pair met around a month ago online, of course, through a joke Musk had planned to tweet but discovered Grimes had already made, dealing with the complications of artificial intelligence,” Page Six reports.
Earlier on Monday, Musk, 46, tweeted out a pun built on Roko’s Basilisk, a futurist thought experiment which warns of the dangers of artificial intelligence.
Rococo is an ornate 18th century French design style.
Elon Musk and Grimes attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City.
That’s apparently the joke he’d pondered tweeting a month or so ago, only to discover Grimes — otherwise known as Claire Boucher — had made the same joke in 2015, naming a character in her song Flesh Without Blood “Rococo Basilisk.”
According to Page Six’s source, Musk sought out Grimes, 30, and she said no one had understood her joke for three years.
On March 30, Musk tweeted out the video for Grimes’s song Venus Fly, which also features Janelle Monae.
The two have also tweeted back and forth; nearly two weeks ago he praised a Spotify play list of hers and she responded playfully.
“Sounds great riding my cyborg,” he said in response.
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