Sam Altman’s OpenAI is reportedly building its own social media platform – a move that could escalate tensions with his bitter rival, X owner Elon Musk.
While the OpenAI project is in its early stages, the company has built an “X-like” prototype that would pair ChatGPT’s image generation tool with a social media feed, The Verge reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
For now, it’s not clear if OpenAI would release the experimental social media platform as a standalone app or simply integrate it with ChatGPT, the report said. In February, OpenAI disclosed that ChatGPT had reached 400 million weekly active users.
An Altman-led push into social media would surely irritate Musk, who is currently locked in a bitter legal battle in a bid to stop OpenAI’s plans to transform from a non-profit to a for-profit entity.
Representatives for OpenAI and X did not immediately return The Post’s request for comment.
Musk has accused Altman and OpenAI of abandoning its original goal of building safe AI for humanity’s betterment while transforming from a “tax-exempt charity to a $157 billion for-profit, market-paralyzing gorgon.”
At the same time, Musk made an unsolicited $97.4 billion bid to buy OpenAI in February. Altman immediately rejected the offer.
OpenAI countersued Musk last week, accusing him of legal harassment and asking a federal judge to bar him from “further unlawful and unfair action” against OpenAI
Altman had previously teased the idea in late February following a report that Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta planned to release its own chatbot as a standalone app to compete with ChatGPT.
“Ok fine maybe we’ll do a social app,” Altman wrote on X at the time. “Lol if facebook tries to come at us and we just uno reverse tham it would be so funny.”
Ironically, Musk publicly blasted Zuckerberg on several occasions in 2023 after Meta released “Threads,” a text-based social media platform similar to X.
At one point, a lawyer for Musk even threatened to sue Meta over the launch.
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