Ai company behind Chatgpt thinking about building a social media platform, according to a report from Edge This week citing more anonymous sources. Yes, you read that right: a social media company.
Now, the concept is just an internal project – which means there is no guarantee that it will ever see the light of day. But the idea raises many questions: What would Openai's social feed? Who would you announce to that? Would the company develop special features for AI for that? Does Altman really want to beat Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk?
And, my most direct question: Why? Why would Openai like to build a social network?
This is not because the company is overcome with time and extra money to spend on it. Extremely busy months have passed for operations. In the past week alone, Chatgpt Plus Playing Custer has access to three new models: O3, O4-min and 4.1. We also learned this spring that the company is developing its first An open weight model For half a decade, and fell on a native image generator and gave ChatGpt's performance updates Improving its memory. Openai is determined to be crowned with the king among a set of competitors working to build the fastest, cheapest and most useful AI models.
And it is precisely this plant that can be behind the reported social media ambitions of the Woodenii.
What would social media look like by Openii?
From what we know, Penena is considering building social food around its new Generator of the native language. Posted earlier this year, the image generator found a wide audience and cause a trend To people who create images of themselves as they are pronounced in the iconic style of the Gibbla studio. Altman is reportedly looking for feedback from “outsiders”.
There will probably be a text component of social food, which can make it better with threads X/Twitter and META. There seems to be a mixture of human and asi content, but many of the details are still unclear.
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Why would you like a social media company?
Short Answer: Data. Leading a social media company is not an easy task and is already a hyperkompetitive, overwhelming and fragmented market. In the past, Altman's joke has announced about Starting a social application or Buying X/TwitterIn response to reports on the launch of Harma AI an independent application and an offer from a group of investors led by Musk to buy the non -profit behind the opera.
While Altman would not be the first (or last) billionaire to launch a real company like a joke, there is a much simpler and more realistic reason to investigate the construction platform for social media: data is needed.
Well well, maybe we will make a social application https://t.co/663vkhn4qb
– Sam Altman (@sama) February 27, 2025
The type of AI developing it requires huge parts of human -generated content to train its models to make them firmer, accurate and human sounds. Openai's current data acquisition practices are subject to heated lawsuits, but that does not mean that the company has stopped acquiring and training models. Social media platforms where real people (and of course, potentially many bots) freely talk, share pictures and post videos can be a boon to the Ai-Good Data Company-IM have allowed those customers to allow Openai to use that content for training purposes.
Two of Openai's biggest competitors in the AI ​​generative space are targeted and X/Twitter, which both have their own social media platforms. Zuckerberg and Musk are able to use the content shared on Facebook, Instagram and X to refine their models – Meta users cannot give up training, although X users can. Openai's social media company can help make AIS more competitive, even if it means the company should branch out and spend a lot of money.
Ai and social media
Artificial intelligence has always been involved at some level in curing our social media sources through machinery learning algorithms. But now, the generative AI is increasingly finding new ways that appears for Instagram, YouTube and X. The content generated by AI also meets social sources, to the disappointment of many people.
AI's generative features on social media can be the result of large tech companies such as target and X who own and work businesses with AI under the same parasol for parents. It is easier to keep in the family, to some extent. It is certainly part of a larger, long -standing AI trend that appears on many of our network spaces, both in Microsoft, Google and other software products and in hardware such as the new iPhone, Androids and laptops.
For more, check our full reviews of Chatgpt 4 and Hearing AI.