ChatGPT to launch its own social network as Altman takes on Musk and Meta
OpenAI is developing a competitor to Musk's X network (photo: Getty Images)
OpenAI is working on its own social network like X (Twitter), according to several sources familiar with the situation, informs The Verge.
Although the project is in its early stages, it is known that there is already an internal prototype within the company featuring a social feed focused on image generation through ChatGPT. According to sources, CEO Sam Altman is privately asking external experts for feedback on the project.
It is currently unknown whether OpenAI plans to launch the social network as a standalone app or integrate it into ChatGPT, which last month became the most downloaded app in the world.
Launching a social network within or alongside ChatGPT could intensify the already sharp rivalry between Altman and Elon Musk. In February, after Musk made an unsolicited offer to acquire OpenAI for $97.4 billion, Altman responded: “No, thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”
Entering the social media market also increases OpenAI’s competition with Meta, which is reportedly planning to add a social feed to its standalone AI assistant app. When reports surfaced a few months ago that Meta was developing a ChatGPT competitor, Altman ironically responded on X: “ok, fine maybe we’ll do a social app.”
A social app would also give OpenAI its own unique, real-time data — the kind that X and Meta already have and use to train their AI models. Musk’s Grok, for example, shows content from X in its results, and Meta trains Llama on massive datasets from users.
One of the ideas behind OpenAI’s social network is to let AI help people share higher-quality content.
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