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Sam Altman’s new brain venture, Merge Labs, will spin out of a nonprofit

  • lastmansurfing
  • Dec 22, 2025
  • 1 min read


While some details of Merge have previously been reported, this is the first time the company has been linked to Forest Neurotech.


According to the Financial Times, Alex Blania, the CEO of World—an Altman-backed digital identity company that makes an eye-scanning orb—is also among the cofounders. Earlier this year, the Financial Times was the first to report on the existence of Merge Labs and that it was raising money at a valuation of $850 million.


The name Merge Labs refers to the Silicon Valley concept of “the merge,” the point when humans meld with machines. Altman wrote about the idea in a 2017 blog post, in which he cited predictions that the merge could happen as early as 2025 and offered his own theory that it had already started.


A so-called focused research organization, Forest Neurotech has been working on an ultrasound-based brain-computer interface for the past few years. 


Read more | WIRED




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