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Emily Mullin @ Wired · today 13:24 EDT

OpenAI Invests in Sam Altman’s New Brain Tech Startup Merge Labs

Merge Labs has emerged from stealth with $252 million in funding from OpenAI and others. It aims to use ultrasound to read from and write to the brain.

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