OpenAI y Sam Altman eats the found the company Merge Labs, which will be dedicated to the design and manufacture of brain implants. That is, it will be direct competence of NeurableElon Musk’s company.
The CEO of X and OpenAi do not get along well. They have faced several times in networks, and compete fiercely in the artificial intelligence business, with Grok and Chatgpt. From now on they will do it in another emerging market, that of the brain implants.
It cannot be said that Sam Altman has copied Elon Musk, because he already talked about them in 2017. The reality is that they are two twin souls that, perhaps in another parallel universe, would be great partners and friends in search of the same objectives.
What is Merge Labs, Sam Altman and Openai’s new startup
As the medium has revealed Financial Timesciting three sources that are working on the subject, Sam Altman has founded a new company called Merge Labswith financing from OpenAI and other partners.
The only thing that is known about it is that it will be dedicated to the same as Neuralink: The design and manufacture of brain implants To improve people’s abilities, or correct problems.
According to the source, Sam Altman will not get involved in the company’s day to day. The position will be Alex Blania, the current CEO of World / Tools for Humanity, the startup also founded by the OpenAi CEO that is dedicated to scanning the iris of people in exchange for cryptocurrencies.
OpenAI will be the main investor, contributing $ 250 millionbut they want to reach 850 million. Sam Altman will not directly invest in the project.
Although it can give the impression that the OpenAi CEO follows the steps of Elon Musk, the truth is that I already thought about The Mergethe merger, almost a decade ago. This is how they call the union of humans and robots in Silicon Valley. The life of a lifetime, go …
Already in 2017, in his personal blog, Sam Altman said this: «The Fusion It can adopt many forms. We could plug electrodes in the brain or make us very friends with a chatbot. But I think the merger is the best possible scenario. «
Merge Labs is the new startup of brain implants, founded by Sam Altman and Openai. Elon Musk Neuralink takes a few years of advantage, but in a nascent technology, distances can recover rapidly.
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