Sam Altman’s Openai is reportedly building its own social media platform. This is a move that could escalate tensions with his bitter rival X-owner Elon Musk.
The Openai project is in its early stages, but the company is building an “X-like” prototype that combines ChatGpt image generation tools with social media feeds.
For now, it is not clear whether Openai will release its experimental social media platform as a standalone app or simply integrate it with ChatGPT, the report said. In February, Openai revealed that ChatGpt reached 400 million active users per week.
An Altman-led push to social media definitely inspires masks. Musk is currently trapped in a fierce legal battle to stop an open plan to transform from a nonprofit into a for-profit organization.
Representatives of Openai and X did not immediately return requests for comment on the post.
Musk accused Altman and Openai of abandoning their original goal of building safe AI for humanity, transforming from a “tax-free charity to a $157 billion for-profit, market mining gorgon.”
At the same time, Musk placed an unsolicited $97.4 billion bid in February to buy Openai. Altman immediately refused the offer.
Openai rebutted Musk last week, accusing him of legal harassment and urged federal judges to ban “further illegal and unfair behavior” against Openai
Altman teased the idea in late February following reports that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is planning to release its own chatbot as a standalone app that competes with ChatGpt.
“It might be okay, but I’ll do a social app.” Altman wrote for X at the time. “If LOL Facebook is about to come to us and we just reverse Tam, that would be very interesting.”
Ironically, Musk publicly blows up Zuckerberg several times in 2023 after Meta released “Threads,” a text-based social media platform similar to X.
At one point, Musk’s lawyer He threatened to sue Meta at the launch..
