The new venture will go head-to-head with Elon Musk’s brain chip startup Neuralink. Altman is reportedly betting that AI can give his chips an edge over existing competitors. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Gizmodo.

Grok's Elon Musk and ChatGPT's Sam Altman. From Apple's App Store conspiracy claims to accusations of algorithm manipulation, the battle has played out in public - and even their AI chatbots have taken sides.

Musk then called Altman a "liar" in a heated exchange, prompting the OpenAI boss to ask whether Musk would sign a sworn legal statement declaring that he had never ordered changes to the X algorithm to harm competitors or help his own companies.