Sam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’
Image Credit: theverge- Sam Altman and Elon Musk are competing to build a comprehensive ‘everything’ super app integrating finance, social media, and gaming.
- Altman’s initiative, Tools for Humanity, founded Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency distributed through biometric eye-scanning at retail locations in the US.
- The World app, developed by Tools for Humanity, combines a crypto wallet, social network, and mini-app platform, serving 26 million monthly users, with 12 million verified via Worldcoin’s biometric system.
- Altman’s goal with the World app is to create a platform rivaling Elon Musk’s X by leveraging blockchain-based user identification and diverse mini-apps.
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