Sam Altman’s OpenAI is reportedly constructing its personal social media platform – a transfer that might escalate tensions along with his bitter rival, X proprietor Elon Musk.
Whereas the OpenAI undertaking is in its early phases, the corporate has constructed an “X-like” prototype that may pair ChatGPT’s picture era device with a social media feed, The Verge reported, citing sources aware of the matter.
For now, it’s not clear if OpenAI would launch the experimental social media platform as a standalone app or just combine it with ChatGPT, the report stated. In February, OpenAI disclosed that ChatGPT had reached 400 million weekly lively customers.
An Altman-led push into social media would absolutely irritate Musk, who’s at the moment locked in a bitter authorized battle in a bid to cease OpenAI’s plans to rework from a non-profit to a for-profit entity.
Representatives for OpenAI and X didn’t instantly return The Submit’s request for remark.
Musk has accused Altman and OpenAI of abandoning its authentic aim of constructing protected AI for humanity’s betterment whereas remodeling from a “tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion for-profit, market-paralyzing gorgon.”
On the similar time, Musk made an unsolicited $97.4 billion bid to purchase OpenAI in February. Altman instantly rejected the provide.
OpenAI countersued Musk final week, accusing him of authorized harassment and asking a federal choose to bar him from “further unlawful and unfair action” in opposition to OpenAI
Altman had beforehand teased the thought in late February following a report that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta deliberate to launch its personal chatbot as a standalone app to compete with ChatGPT.
“Ok fine maybe we’ll do a social app,” Altman wrote on X on the time. “Lol if facebook tries to come at us and we just uno reverse tham it would be so funny.”
Satirically, Musk publicly blasted Zuckerberg on a number of events in 2023 after Meta launched “Threads,” a text-based social media platform much like X.
At one level, a lawyer for Musk even threatened to sue Meta over the launch.
