OpenAI is building ‘X-like social network’ to rival Elon Musk — Report

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Massive language mannequin developer OpenAI is reportedly engaged on a brand new social media community, placing the corporate on a collision course with Elon Musk’s X and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms.

Citing nameless sources, The Verge reported on April 15 that OpenAI is creating an “X-like social community” that mixes ChatGPT’s picture technology instruments and a social feed, presumably to permit customers to share their AI-generated footage with a broader viewers. 

It’s unclear whether or not OpenAI will spin out a brand new social media platform or roll the options into ChatGPT, the sources mentioned.

OpenAI has turn into one of the crucial highly effective know-how corporations on the earth following the overwhelming success of its ChatGPT models. Its first-mover benefit within the AI race allowed it to raise $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation in a funding deal that was spearheaded by SoftBank Group.

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ChatGPT has 400 million weekly lively customers as of February 2025 — up from 50 million initially of 2023. Supply: Demandsage 

A pivot into social media — a pure touchdown spot for an AI firm whose instruments can be utilized for content material creation and constructing chatbots for specialised duties — would up the ante within the ongoing battle between former colleagues Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

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Musk and Altman: A sophisticated historical past

The rivalry between the 2 entrepreneurs stems from OpenAI’s commercialization efforts and Altman’s alleged abandonment of the startup’s founding mission as a nonprofit. 

Musk and a bunch of traders reportedly tabled a $97.4 billion buyout offer for OpenAI in February, however the proposed deal was apparently rejected by Altman, who took to social media to say “no thanks.”

Altman did, nevertheless, specific curiosity in shopping for X for $9.74 billion, or one-tenth of the proposed OpenAI buyout bid. The curt response might or might not have been real. 

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Supply: Sam Altman

Musk responded to Altman’s submit by calling him a “swindler.”

Musk acquired X, previously Twitter, in a $44 billion deal in 2022. The platform stays a hotbed for social media engagement throughout the cryptocurrency trade. 

On March 7, US President Donald Trump used X to ship welcoming remarks for the “first-ever White Home Digital Asset Summit” in Washington, DC. 

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Supply: POTUS

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