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OpenAI, Cofounder Sam Altman to Take on Neuralink with New Startup
Merge Labs aims to develop less invasive brain implants for AI interaction and targets $250 million funding, challenging Neuralink's $9 billion valuation and advancing human-AI integration.
- Sam Altman is co-founding Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup aiming to compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink and raise $250 million in funding.
- This venture emerges amid a long-running rivalry that began when Musk departed from OpenAI's board in 2018 following conflicts over the organization's trajectory, and after he established Neuralink in 2016.
- Neuralink, valued at $9 billion after raising $650 million this year, is testing brain implants that help people with paralysis control devices using thought.
- In June 2024, Altman released 'The Gentle Singularity,' advocating for a steady and cooperative merging of human minds with AI systems while reaffirming his commitment to advancing the singularity vision.
- Merge Labs' development and funding, largely from OpenAI ventures, suggests increased competition in neurotechnology with potential to reshape human-machine interaction.
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OpenAI and Sam Altman Are Reportedly Working on a Neuralink Competitor
The escalating feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his arch nemesis, Elon Musk, may soon escalate with news that the former is starting a rival brain-computer interface (BCI) company. As the Financial Times reports, OpenAI is weighing a major investment in Merge Labs, a BCI startup seeking to become the latest Neuralink competitor by achieving $850 million valuation with the help of the company's ventures team and other interested parties. Ac…
OpenAI in talks to back Neuralink competitor Merge Labs at $850M valuation - Tech Startups
The rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk may soon move from AI labs to the human brain. OpenAI is in talks to lead a $250 million funding round for Merge Labs, a brain-computer interface startup valued at roughly $850 […] The post OpenAI in talks to back Neuralink competitor Merge Labs at $850M valuation first appeared on Tech Startups.
OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly creating a startup rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink
Sam Altman is preparing to co-found a new company funded by OpenAI that will go up against Elon Musk's Neuralink, The Financial Post reported. The startup, called Merge Labs, will use AI for its brain-computer interface and compete directly with Neuralink, along with other nascent companies in the field like Precision Neuroscience and Synchron. The name Merge Labs comes from a term Altman used in 2017 called "the merge" that describes the momen…
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