Sam Altman, head of OpenAI, creator of the popular chatbot with artificial intelligence ChatGPT, is close to raising nearly $100 million to fund the Worldcoin crypto project, which will mine the tokens as biometric data. newspaper reports Finance Times He cites three people who knew about the deal.
Worldcoin is in early talks to raise cash from both new and existing investors ahead of a potential launch in the next few weeks.
The startup wants to use eyeball scanning technology to create a digital identity system that will give people around the world access to a free crypto token called Worldcoin.
The main fundraising efforts were made by the startup even before the start of the crypto crisis, when the prices of flagship tokens such as Bitcoin and Ethereum fell and well-known companies including the FTX crypto exchange crashed.
Altman co-founded OpenAI with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in 2015 and is currently the CEO of the AI startup.
It was previously reported by Sam Altman is in constant fear its own demise and a potential doomsday for humanity, as it has created a cache of resources and weapons supplies.