“Openai will take part in the Merge Labs Financing Round – Neuralink Competitor Ilon Mask. About it reports Financial Times with reference to sources. According to the newspaper, the startup plans to raise $ 250 million for $ 850 million. Sam Altman supported the initiative and will help run the project with Alex Blany, […]”, – WRITE: Businessua.com.ua
Openai will take part in the Merge Labs Financing Round – Neuralink Competitor Ilon Mask. About it reports Financial Times with reference to sources.
According to the publication, The startup plans to raise $ 250 million for $ 850 million.
Sam Altman supported the initiative and will help you start the project together with Alex Blany, who heads another startup of the entrepreneur – World.
CEO OpenAi will become a co -founder of the company, but will not participate in its daily work and does not plan to invest its own.
Merge Labs will work on creating brain -computer interfaces (BCI). The name symbolizes “merger” – the moment when people and cars are united.
Back in 2017, Altman wrote a detailed post on this topic, assuming that the moment of fusion of computers with the brain could come in 2025. In the new publication, he noted that due to the latest technological breakthroughs, “high -speed brain -computer interfaces” will appear in the near future.
The new startup will be a direct competitor to Neuralink, a mask -based companies in 2016. The billionaire was also co-founder of Openai, but in 2018 he left the Board of Directors after the conflict with Altman. Since then, entrepreneurs have been competing in the shi.
Musk founded his own SI-startup XAI in 2023 and tries to block Openai into a commercial structure through the court.
Recall that in July neurotechnology company Paradromics reported the completion of the first implantation of its chip to man.
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