News Summary

• Merge Labs will compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink, which is developing computer interface chips designed to be implanted in the brain.
• Musk founded Neuralink in 2016 and the company has made serious progress.
• It raised a $600 million Series E at a $9 billion valuation in June.
• Altman blogged about “The Merge” in 2017.
• “Although the merge has already begun, it's going to get a lot weirder.
• We will be the first species ever to design our own descendants,” he postulated.