It seems to be like OpenAI is constructing its personal X-like social media community, according to a report by The Verge. We don’t have many specifics, however we do know there’s an inside prototype that provides a social feed to ChatGPT’s picture technology device.
It stays unclear if OpenAI will launch this social community as a standalone app or if will probably be built-in inside the ChatGPT app, which is what the prototype signifies. The report does counsel that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been asking for suggestions concerning the social community from folks exterior of the corporate.
One potential purpose for this step is that the app would permit OpenAI to collect real-time knowledge from customers to coach its AI fashions. It’s additionally a doubtlessly diversifying transfer for the corporate.
Though it’s unsure if this challenge will ever see the sunshine of day, one factor is possible — it’ll possible get underneath the pores and skin of Elon Musk, who owns X. Altman and OpenAI have been at odds with Musk for a while. The corporate rejected his provide to purchase OpenAI, as an alternative providing to "purchase Twitter" for simply $9.7 billion {dollars}. It’s price noting that the provide is 4 instances decrease than what Musk paid for the platform and that Altman purposefully used the phrase Twitter and never X.
no thanks however we’ll purchase twitter for $9.74 billion if you need
— Sam Altman (@sama) February 10, 2025
OpenAI has additionally not too long ago countersued Musk, accusing the billionaire of staging press assaults and malicious campaigns towards the corporate on X. The swimsuit additionally accuses Musk of constructing "harassing authorized claims," referring to his preliminary swimsuit, and a "sham bid for OpenAI's belongings."
The corporate additionally printed an e mail from Musk’s time at OpenAI by which he prompt merging with Tesla. Altman and his crew have acknowledged that Musk was current throughout talks about OpenAI going for-profit and that he prompt he be given majority fairness, management of the board and the CEO place. Musk left OpenAI in 2018 and based xAI, which someway simply purchased X in some sort of shady ouroboros of company tomfoolery.
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