Sam Altman is in the process of establishing a new brain-calculators interconnection called Merge Labs and concentration of capital for this with the capital that may largely come from Openai’s Ventures team, anonymous sources I told the Financial Times.
The start is expected to be estimated at $ 850 million. A source familiar with the deal tells TechCrunch that talks are still early and Openai has not yet been committed to participation, so the terms could change.
Merge Labs also works with Alex Blania, who manages tools for humanity (former world)-Altman’s digital identity program that “allows anyone to verify their humanity”, as the company describes.
Merge Labs will compete with the Neuralink of Elon Musk, which is developing computer interface chips designed to implant in the brain. Musk founded Neuralink in 2016 (although its existence was not Well known by 2017) and the company has made serious progress.
Neuralink is Currently in tests with people suffering from serious paralysis. Its purpose is to allow them to control the devices with their thoughts. The increased a series of $ 600 million to $ 9 billion Valuation in June.
Neuralink (and perhaps, merging laboratories) could revolutionize the way people interact with technology. Some may even say that their technology could take humanity towards “peculiarity”.
Long before Silicon Valley became obsessed with the concept of artificial general intelligence (AGI), he was in love with “peculiarity”. Musk used the term To describe a time when AI transcends human intelligence. The most classic definition (after a 1960s novel with the same name by Dino Buzzati) means the merger of technology with humans.
Bum with blogged About “The Merge” in 2017.
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Musk has left Openai in 2018 and the relationship between the two technology leaders has since been decomposed. Once this week, Altman and Musk ran to x after Altman blamed Musk Handling X and Musk called Altman liar.
We have to wait and see when and whether Merge Labs is officially announced. But it is logical that Altman would not let Musk work in something as important as the particularity without questioner.
Openai denied comment.
