opeanAI, the company focused on Generative Artificial Intelligence platforms and its CEO, Sam Altmann, have had an extraordinary year thanks to the furor sparked by ChatGPT.
However, the company would be at a fairly difficult equilibrium point. Since his level of expenses is monumental, even counting on Microsoft that it has invested a million that apparently could soon be diluted.
Due to the relatively unexplored terrain in which they operate and imminent regulation of their projects, which to date have not been carried out in the most transparent manner, Open AI It is in a complex moment, since it will be difficult for them to be listed on the stock market, but they are in need of capital.
In fact, the matter would be so delicate that there are firm projections that the company would technically go bankrupt within the year 2024. In months.
Perhaps for this reason, the CEO of the company, Sam Altman, has decided to move forward and focus on a new project that apparently has little to do with Artificial Intelligence: prevent human beings from aging, or in the worst case, from enjoying more years of life.
This is Retro Biosciences: Sam Altman’s new company to make you “immortal”
an article of MIT Technology Review He was the one who burst the initial furor by discovering and uncovering the new projects that Sam Altman has started, investing several million dollars.
The media ensures that the OpenAI co-founder would have practically emptied his bank account to finance a couple of companies that pursue two other objectives that are very different from their AI but are equally ambitious: unlimited energy and long useful life.
The second is the one that occupies our greatest interest: Retro Biosciences, a project to which Altman handed out checks totaling $180 million.
According to Retro Biosciences’ own publication of mission, vision and operating objectives, the company’s goal is to “find and demonstrate anti-aging mechanisms in non-human mammals and then translate those scientific strategies to humans.”
In other words, they want to find the key to making human beings live longer. So it is not trying to achieve “immortality” per se.
But at least they would look for a way to increase the average maximum age of life among the elderly, so that we all die older.
The quality of life that can be had beyond 100 years of age is another matter.