This Is Probably Why Sam Altman Wants to Build an OpenAI Social Media App

The AI company behind ChatGPT is considering building a social media platform, according to reporting from The Verge this week citing multiple anonymous sources. Yes, you read that right: a social media company. Right now, the concept is only an internal project -- meaning there's no guarantee it will ever see the light of day. But the idea raises a lot of questions: What would an OpenAI social feed look like? Who would post on it? Would the company develop special AI features for it? Does Altman really just want to beat Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk? And, my most immediate question: Why? Why would OpenAI want to build a social network? It's not because the company is overrun with time and extra cash to spend on it. It's been an extremely busy couple of months for OpenAI. In the past week alone, ChatGPT Plus paying customers got access to three new models: o3, o4-mini and 4.1. We've also learned this spring that the company is developing its first open-weights model in half a decade ... Read full article.