OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly creating a startup rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink

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OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly creating a startup rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink
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Sam Altman is preparing to co-found a new company funded by OpenAI that will go up against Elon Musk 's Neuralink ,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.called "the merge" that describes the moment human brains and computers come together.

Altman has been interested in the topic of machine-brain interfaces for years and suggested in the 2017 article above that the merge could arrive as soon as 2025 . More recently, he wrote inAltman's Merge Labs will be a direct competitor to Musk's Neuralink, intensifying the rivalry between the two that kicked off when Musk left OpenAI's board in 2018.

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