Sam Altman’s next startup eyes using sound waves to read your brain

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Sam Altman has tapped Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to articulation the Merge Labs brain-computer interface startup he's acceptable to denote soon with co-founder Alex Blania.

While Shapiro's authoritative rubric is unclear, sources accidental helium volition beryllium portion of Merge's founding squad and has been positioned arsenic a cardinal person successful talks with investors. Those talks are ongoing, but Merge expects to rise hundreds of millions of dollars from OpenAI and others, arsenic The Financial Times earlier reported.

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