OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

The company aims to raise $ 250 million from Openai and other investors, although talks are at an early stage. Altman will not invest personally.

The new company would be in direct competition with Neuralink, founded by Musk in 2016, which seeks to wire the brains directly to computers.

Musk and Altman co -founded Openai, but Musk left the board of directors in 2018 after facing Altman, and the two have since become ferocious rivals in their pursuit of the AI.

Musk launched his own AI, XAI, 2023 AI start-up and tried to block the conversion of Openai of a non-profit organization in the courts. Musk donated a large part of the initial capital to open the ground.

Neuralink is part of a packet of so-called-manager interface companies, while a certain number of start-ups, such as precision neurosciences and synchron, have also emerged on the stage.

Neuralink earlier this year raised $ 650 million to an evaluation of $ 9 billion, and it is supported by investors including Sequoia Capital, Thrive Capital and Vy Capital. Altman had already invested in Neuralink.

Brain implants are a technology of several decades, but recent steps in the AI and in the electronic components used to collect brain signals have offered the prospect that they can become more practically useful.

Altman has supported a number of other companies in the adjacent markets in Chatgpt-Maker Openai, which is estimated at $ 300 billion. In addition to the co -foundation of the world, he also invested in the Nuclear Oklo nuclear group and the Helion nuclear merger project.

Openai refused to comment.

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