OpenAI is building a social network

Sam Altman.

OpenAI is moving connected its ain X-like societal network, according to aggregate sources acquainted with the matter.

While the task is inactive successful aboriginal stages, we’re told there’s an interior prototype focused connected ChatGPT’s representation generation that has a societal feed. CEO Sam Altman has been privately asking outsiders for feedback astir the project, our sources say. It’s unclear if OpenAI’s program is to merchandise the societal web arsenic a abstracted app oregon integrate it into ChatGPT, which became the most downloaded app globally past month. An OpenAI spokesperson didn’t respond successful clip for publication.

Launching a societal web successful oregon astir ChatGPT would apt summation Altman’s already-bitter rivalry with Elon Musk. In February, aft Musk made an unsolicited connection to purchase OpenAI for $97.4 billion, Altman responded: “no convey you but we volition bargain twitter for $9.74 cardinal if you want.”

Entering the societal media marketplace besides puts OpenAI connected much of a collision people with Meta, which we’re told is readying to adhd a societal provender to its coming standalone app for its AI assistant. When reports of Meta gathering a rival to the ChatGPT app archetypal surfaced a mates of months ago, Altman …

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