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Elon Musk’s brain tech startup neurlinks closed the $ 650 million funding round, the company on Monday announced.
According to a release, Arc Invest, Founders Fund, Sikoia Capital, Thrive Capital, LightSpeed Venture Partners and other firms participated in the round. The neurlinks stated that the fresh capital would help the company to bring its technology for more patients and develop new equipment that “deepens the relationship between biological and”. artificial intelligence,
The neurlink is creating a brain-computer interface, or a BCI, a system that translates the brain signals into orders for external technologies.
The company’s first system, called telepathy, contains 64 “threads” that is directly inserted into the brain. According to the neurlink, threads are thinner than a human hair and record nerve signals through 1,024 electrodes Website,
The initial purpose of technology is to help patients with severe paralysis restore some freedom. By Monday, five patients have been transplanted with neurlink technology, and “are able to control digital and physical devices with their ideas,” said in the release.
The neurlink is currently performing four separate clinical tests around its telepathy system.
BCI has been studied in academics for decades, and including many other companies SynchronParadromics and Pure neuroscience Are developing their own systems.
Paradromics announced on Monday that it successfully transplanted its BCI in a human for the first time.
It is not clear at all what devices will be seen by the neurlinks to develop, but Musk has been spying on grand ambitions for brain tech startup over the years. He has also claimed that he himself will be ready to get a transplant.
One of the abilities has repeatedly highlighted that blind patients have the ability to restore vision.
The neurlinks received the designation from the US Food and Drug Administration for a device called Blindite. This designation is provided to medical devices that have the ability to provide better treatment for weak or life-dreamed conditions.
In a post on his social media platform X in September, Musk said that the blindsite would also enable people who have lost both eyes and optic nerve to see.
Before commercializing these techniques, neurlinks are still a long road.
Watch: Shares a video of a patient playing chess using a signal from a neurlink brain implant
