Sam Altman is preparing to co-found a new company funded by OpenAI that will go up against 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 moment human brains and computers come together. The company will raise funds, most from OpenAI’s ventures team, that will set its valuation at $850 million.
