Open AI is investing in Sam Altman's new brain computer interface startup merge labs.

This is super interesting because we of course know that this isn't a new area.

Elon Musk has famously been working on a brain interface company Neurlink for quite a while.

And I think we've seen on X and other social media platforms some of the really interesting videos of people using this. So I think it's becoming more familiar. And I think when this kind of neuralink first came out, there was a lot of fear around it, essentially the fact that, look, do we really want to put a computer into our brain? How does that get impact us? I think a lot of people were like, look, random, everyday people are going to be

walking around with computer chips in their brain to help augment how smart they are. And in reality,

I think we've seen that it's being used by people with, you know, that are paralyzed or have

other challenges where they're not able to actually write or talk or speak or communicate or do

things. And all of the sudden, this is enabling all of that.

And Elon Musk recently went on and said

that he believes in Neurrelink and other tools like this,

basically these brain-computer interface startups,

merged with AI, are going to bring back

the functionality of people to all areas of their body

where they never had it before,

whether that's their arms or legs if they're paralyzed.

And maybe part of that is like you'll have robotics arms, but you'll be able to move them

by thinking about it and different things like that.

And some people think you can stimulate parts of the brain to bring back movement

to paralyzed parts of your body.

So there's like a lot of

crazy science going on. There's a lot that is going to happen in the future. But with all of that,

it looks like Sam Altman is getting into this race with Merge Labs, his new brain computer interface

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