Rumors about a potential collaboration between World and OpenAI have heated up leading up to the upcoming World event on April 30. From an outside view this makes perfect sense, since:
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Sam Altman is one of the three co-founders of World (previously Worldcoin)
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OpenAI recently gated access to its newest models (o3 and o4-mini) behind identity checks and facial verification, which will continue for future releases
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OpenAI is working on a new social network that will likely require some sort of human verification to protect the platform’s user experience from AI agents/bots
World is well-positione
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