Sam Altman is preparing to co-found a new company funded by OpenAI that will go up against Elon Musk's Neuralink.

The new venture will go head-to-head with Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink. Altman is reportedly betting that AI can give his chips an edge over existing competitors. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Gizmodo.

The already fierce rivalry between tech titans Sam Altman and Elon Musk is escalating to a new frontier: the human brain. A story from the Financial Times (FT) reports that Altman’s OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is plotting its next major investment in a brain-implant startup called Merge Labs.