Altman himself is in the strategy of co -founder of the recent brain interface startup to a computer called Merge Labs and collecting funds for it with capital, which probably come to a large extent from the Ventures OpenAI team, nameless sources the Financial Times said.
The startup is expected to be priced at $ 850 million. The source familiar with the contract says TechCrunch that the talks are still early, and OpenAI does not yet undertake to participate, so the conditions may change.
Apparently, Merge Labs also cooperates with Alex Blani, who runs tools for humanity (earlier the world)-a digital ID projection with the eye of Altman, who “allows everyone to verify his humanity,” as the company describes.
Merge Labs will compete with Elon Musk’s neuraline, who develops computer interface systems designed to be implanted into the brain. Musk founded a neuralk in 2016 (although its existence was not Known until 2017), and the company has made serious progress.
Neuralk is Currently in rehearsals with people suffering from severe paralysis. It goals to enable them to regulate devices with their thoughts. This collected a series E in the amount of $ 600 million per $ 9 billion Valuation in June.
Neuralink (and perhaps Scal Labs) can revolutionize the way people interact with technology. Some may even say that their technology can take humanity in the direction of “peculiarities”.
Long before the Silicon Valley was obsessed with the concept of artificial general intelligence (Aga), she was in love with “peculiarities”. He used musk deadline Describe the time when AI exceeds human intelligence. A more classic definition (after the novel from the Nineteen Sixties with the same name Dino Buzzati) means a combination of technology with people.
Altman Blogged About “merging” in 2017. “Although merging has already begun, it’ll be much stranger.
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Musk left Opeli in 2018, and the relationship between two technology leaders has integrated. Only this week Altman and Musk were arguing at X Altman accused Musk manipulation XI Musk called Altman liar.
We will have to attend and see when and if Scal Labs is formally announced. But it is the reasoning that Altman is not going to allow Musk to work on something as vital as a peculiarity without a pretender.
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