{"id":970222,"date":"2025-10-29T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T05:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=970222"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:31:57","slug":"openai-ceo-sam-altman-may-soon-enter-brain-computer-interface-field-to-compete-with-elon-musks-neuralink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/29\/openai-ceo-sam-altman-may-soon-enter-brain-computer-interface-field-to-compete-with-elon-musks-neuralink\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI CEO Sam Altman may soon enter brain-computer interface field to compete with Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman is reportedly preparing to launch his brain-computer interface (BCI) startup called Merge Labs. To this end, the OpenAI CEO has brought on Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the founding team. Shapiro, whose exact title remains unclear, is positioned as a key leader in the company&#8217;s ongoing talks with investors. Merge Labs, which Altman co-founded with Alex Blania, is expected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from OpenAI and other investors. Shapiro&#8217;s expertise signals Merge Labs&#8217; technical direction, which may compete with Elon Musk&#8217;s Neuralink. His engineering lab at Caltech has focused on non-invasive techniques for neural imaging and control, specifically using ultrasound to interact with the brain without requiring open-skull surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Altman is reportedly preparing to launch his brain-computer interface (BCI) startup called Merge Labs. To this end, the OpenAI CEO has brought on Mikhail Shapiro, an award-winning biomolecular engineer, to join the founding team. Shapiro, whose exact title remains unclear, is positioned as a key leader in the company&#8217;s ongoing talks with investors. Merge Labs, which Altman co-founded with Alex Blania, is expected to raise hundreds of millions of dollars from OpenAI and other investors. Shapiro&#8217;s expertise signals Merge Labs&#8217; technical direction, which may compete with Elon Musk&#8217;s Neuralink. His engineering lab at Caltech has focused on non-invasive techniques [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}