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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 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. Altman will co-found Merge Labs with Alex Blania (from World, an eyeball scanning company also backed by OpenAI) but won't invest any capital himself, according to three people with direct knowledge of the project. Mind link technology has existed for decades now, but recent advances in implant tech and AI have allowed researchers to collect and process higher signal levels from the brain.
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