Openai studies to build a social network to compete Elon Musk’s X and Goal Instagram, a family source with the plans confirmed at CNBC.
The project is still in its early stages, said the person, who asked not to be named for confidentiality. Is based on the popularity of the new Openai images generation function, which has caused a overload of company servers.
The edge He was first to report on the project. Openai refused to comment.
In March, Openai debuted his latest image generation tool, inspiration for the potential social media project, as a way to produce everything, from diagrams, infographics and logos to visit cards and photographs. The function can also use an image as a starting point for art, such as a personalized painting of a pet or editing a professional stroke.
Images of anime performances of users’ hanging photos have been viral to X and other social media applications, and Openai CEO SAM Altman changed his X Profile photo To an image generated by the new function.
Although it is « very fun to see people who love the images » in Chatgpt, « Our GPU melt », Altman Published Ax At the end of last month, referring to graphic processing units, which feed the training and workloads. He added that the company would temporarily limit the use of the function, as it works to make it more efficient.
Openai faces strong competition in the rapid growth generative IA, including Musk’s lamb, who said last month he had it acquired X, also controlled by Musk. Altman and Musk are simultaneously involved in a legal battle, focusing largely around Openai’s effort to transform into a profit organization. Musk was one of the co -founders of Openai, which was launched in 2015 as a non -profit research laboratory.
A federal district court last month blocked Musk’s attempt To stop the transition from Openai to a non -profit company. In February, a group directed by the musc offered To buy Openai’s control for $ 97.4 billion, an offer that was quickly rejected.
Last month, Openai closed what supposes Larger private financing funding round In record, he raised $ 40 billion to a $ 300 million rating.
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