Sam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’

Sam Altman and Elon Musk aren't conscionable competing successful the AI race; they some person ambitions to physique Silicon Valley's beatified grail: an "everything" ace app encompassing finance, societal media, gaming, and more.

Earlier this week, I got a peek astatine Altman's program from a cavernous lawsuit abstraction connected the bluish borderline of San Francisco. He was not determination arsenic the CEO of OpenAI, but arsenic the co-founder and president of Tools for Humanity, the genitor institution of a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin that's present disposable successful the US. Worldcoin is distributed to radical who scan their eyes astatine 1 of the startup's orbs, which are rolling retired successful retail stores crossed America. At the aforesaid time, the token is being utilized to physique a ace app to rival X.

Tools for Humanity's World app is simply a crypto wallet, societal network, and mini-app level each successful one. Its monthly idiosyncratic basal has doubled successful the past six months to 26 cardinal people, 12 cardinal of whom person been verified by an orb. In the World app, you tin connection others via a chat interface tied to World IDs - the blockchain-based identifier you get aft scanning your eyes - and nonstop oregon person cryptocurrency. There are besides dozens of mini apps disposable from developers …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.