ChatGPT creator OpenAI may launch social media platform, taking on X and Meta: Report

OpenAI is working on a new social media network in an apparent move to give stiff competition to X and Meta, whose chiefs are already embroiled in a bitter rivalry with Sam Altman.

According to a report by The Verge, OpenAI’s social media project is still in its early stages, but there is an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that includes a social feed. CEO Sam Altman has been privately seeking feedback from outsiders about the project.

Sources have told the outlet that it is still not clear whether ChatGPT’s makers will launch a new app for its social media network or integrate into the artificial intelligence platform.

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Will this affect Altman’s relationship with Musk, Zuckerberg?

Launching a social network within or alongside ChatGPT would likely intensify Altman’s already tense rivalry with Elon Musk. In February, following Musk’s unsolicited $97.4 billion offer to acquire OpenAI, Altman replied, “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”

Musk had sued the ChatGPT maker and Altman last year, alleging they had abandoned OpenAI’s original goal of developing AI for the benefit of humanity — not corporate gain.

OpenAI’s possible debut into the world of social media is also not likely to sit right with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, which, according to The Verge, is planning to add its own a social feed to its upcoming standalone app for Meta AI.  

Both Meta and X have access to a massive amount of data — public content posted by users on their social media platforms — that they train their AI models on.

With inputs from agencies