OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly creating a startup rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is co-founding Merge Labs, an $850 million brain-computer interface startup competing with Elon Musk's Neuralink. Funded by OpenAI's ventures team, Merge Labs aims to combine AI with brain interface technology. Altman will partner with Alex Blania from World without personal investment. This intensifies the Altman-Musk rivalry since Musk's 2018 departure from OpenAI's board. Neuralink has begun human trials, with subjects demonstrating game-playing and design capabilities using the technology.
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