{"id":986016,"date":"2026-01-17T09:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986016"},"modified":"2026-01-17T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:52:10","slug":"openai-invests-in-ceo-sam-altmans-startup-merge-labs-emerges-with-elon-musks-neuralink-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/17\/openai-invests-in-ceo-sam-altmans-startup-merge-labs-emerges-with-elon-musks-neuralink-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI invests in CEO Sam Altman\u2019s startup Merge Labs, emerges with Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a response to Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink specialising in Brain Computer Interface (BCI), OpenAI has made a strategic investment in Merge Labs \u2013 a San Francisco-based BCI startup co-founded by former Neuralink engineers and backed by Sam Altman. The funding round positions Merge Labs as a serious contender in the rapidly growing BCI space, directly challenging Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink and ramping up the competition in the BCI space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a response to Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink specialising in Brain Computer Interface (BCI), OpenAI has made a strategic investment in Merge Labs \u2013 a San Francisco-based BCI startup co-founded by former Neuralink engineers and backed by Sam Altman. The funding round positions Merge Labs as a serious contender in the rapidly growing BCI space, directly challenging Elon Musk\u2019s Neuralink and ramping up the competition in the BCI space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986016","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}