Neuralink is a dominant force in the BCI space, but the arrival of a new, well-capitalised startup in Merge Labs may change the conversation.

Sam Altman, the OpenAI co-founder valued at the center of artificial intelligence's rapid ascent, is preparing a challenge to Elon Musk in the high-stakes brain-computer interface market. Altman is co-founding a new venture,

Merge Labs venture comes after OpenAI boss Sam Altman said the race to embed AI in humans is ‘going to get a lot weirder’

Sam Altman is preparing to co-found a new company funded by OpenAI that will go up against Elon Musk's Neuralink, The Financial Post reported. The startup, called Merge Labs, will use AI for its brain-computer interface and compete directly with Neuralink,

Microsoft (MSFT)-backed OpenAI's latest venture, Merge Labs, is looking to develop a novel gene therapy approach targeting brain cells. Read more here.

Sam Altman is reportedly entering in brain-computer interface domain through a new startup, Merge Labs. The company is reportedly valued at $850 million. Merge Labs is expected to develop advanced neural interface systems that may soon allow humans to interact with machines based on their thoughts,

The rollout was even messy enough to spill into betting markets. One 27-year-old day trader, Foster McCoy, pocketed $10,000 in just a few hours by wagering that Google’s Gemini would beat GPT-5 in a popularity contest.