OpenAI Founder Sam Altman Invests $180 Million in Life-Extension Startup

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OpenAI Founder Sam Altman Invests $180 Million in Life-Extension Startup
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Artificial intelligence isn't the founder's only focus—he's also funneling funds into Retro, a tech company angling to increase the human lifespan by 10 years.

And like fusion, extending our lifespans has evaded researchers for a long time. The question of whether or not there is a hard limit on the human lifespan has been the subject of science since we’ve been doing science . However, some recent—albeit very divisive—than we currently do, with the aid of specific interventions. And Altman is all in.

In spending the combined $555 million on a scientific-bid for a fountain of youth and a distant possible renewable energy source, Altman reportedly emptied out his savings. “It’s a lot. I basically just took all my liquid net worth and put it into these two companies,” he told Tech Review. Yet in is view, the investment is well worth it. For one, he is “super confident [fusion] is going to work,” Altman said to TR.

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