【每日晨读金融时报】27Aug2025 英语口语听力 附原文及实用单词短语

OpenAI and its co-founder Sam Alt­man are set to back a start-up that aims to con­nect human brains and com­puters, com­pet­ing dir­ectly with Elon Musk’s Neur­alink and escal­at­ing the bit­ter rivalry between the two bil­lion­aire tech entre­pren­eurs.

The new ven­ture, called Merge Labs, is rais­ing funds at a $850mn valu­ation, with much of the new cap­ital expec­ted to come from OpenAI’s ven­tures team, accord­ing to three people with dir­ect know­ledge of the plans.

Alt­man has encour­aged the invest­ment and will help launch the project along­side Alex Blania, who runs World, an eye­ball-scan­ning digital ID project also backed by the OpenAI chief, said two of the people. Alt­man will co-found the com­pany but not have a day-to-day role in the project, nor will he per­son­ally invest in it, they added.