Worldcoin, the project co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, is branding to ‘World’ and launching a new version of its controversial iris-scanning Orb. 

Altman, alongside Tools for Humanity CEO Alex Blania, introduced the rebranding and updates to its World ID and World App during a keynote presentation on Thursday.

“We know it sounds crazy, but it is that Worldcoin as the name just doesn’t work anymore,” Blania said. “Starting today, what has been called Worldcoin will be just called World.”

According to Altman, the redesigned Orb has 30% fewer parts and triple the production capacity of its predecessor. Powered by NVIDIA’s Jetson, the new Orb can perform AI operations five times faster than earlier models.

“This enables the new Orb to execute sophisticated AI models that prove humanness and operate entirely on device and even faster than before,” Altman said. “The new Orb was built with more transparency and the ability to audit the code that’s running on it.”

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Author: Jason Nelson