Neuralink, a company that plans to link human brains with computers has raised $27 million to fund the development of the technology. Neuralink was co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk.
Neuralink is Musk’s fourth company. He is also the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, and OpenAI, a non-profit AI research company. He also leads a tunnelling startup called The Boring Company, which started as an offshoot of SpaceX.
In June, Musk said Neuralink is a priority after much more demanding commitments to his automotive and rocket companies. “Boring Co. is maybe 2 percent of my time; Neuralink is 3 percent to 5 percent of my time; OpenAI is going to be a couple of percent and then 90-plus percent is divided between SpaceX and Tesla,” said Musk at the electric-car maker’s annual shareholder meeting.
Few details are known about Neuralink. The company’s website says it’s developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.
Quite ambitious you must say!
