Elon Musk’s Neuralink patient says brain chip is “not perfect, but it has “changed my life”

AXIOS March 21, 2024
Rebecca Falconer

Elon Musk shared video from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink announcing the “first-ever” human user of its brain implant, a 29-year-old man with quadriplegia who said the device has enabled him to play online chess and video games.

The big picture: It’s one of several brain-computer interface devices being developed that companies hope will someday treat neurological disorders.

• Brain-computer-interface (BCI) research has been going on for decades, but it’s been in the spotlight in recent years following heavy investment from billionaires.
• In addition to Musk’s Neuralink, the brain implant startup Synchron, backed by Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, announced last September that its BCI device was implanted into its first six patients.

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