The Financial Times stories that Altman and OpenAI are backing a brand new firm known as Merge Labs creating mind implants, making it a fairly direct rival to Musk’s Neuralink.
This has clearly been an curiosity of Altman’s for some time although — he wrote about “the merge” between people and machines on his private weblog again in 2017, and connects it fairly on to his work at OpenAI:
The merge can take a variety of types: We may plug electrodes into our brains, or we may all simply turn out to be actually shut pals with a chatbot. However I feel a merge might be our best-case situation.