Merge Labs
5 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 16, 2026 by Alex Blania · said 9 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Feb 16, 2026 positive
Feb 16, 2026 positive
Blania: OpenAI wrote the biggest check in Merge Labs' seed round
“A large group of people, but the biggest check was OpenAI and then many of our friends, you know, some of the funds that have been involved here, many, many individuals, it's like a broad, like it's a class, like it's a large scale seed, but it is, from that p…”
Feb 16, 2026 bullish
Blania: BCI will reach broad consumer applications within 15 years
“Like if you now look at a 15 year time horizon, I think it's going to be a couple of years of research, then a couple of years of medical applications and like hopefully bringing benefits to a lot of people that really need such a technology and then eventuall…”
Feb 16, 2026
Feb 16, 2026
Blania: Merge Labs co-founded by Sam Altman, Mikhail Shapiro, and others
“So it's kind of three camps coming together. So that's kind of how it happened. It was Sam, Sandra, and me three of us are not working together since many years on Tulsa for Humanity and on other things. Then it's Mikael Shapiro who's a professor at Caltech an…”