pharmaphorum March 20, 2025
Brain-computer interface (BCI) specialist Synchron has previewed an artificial intelligence model that it believes will form the basis of a new generation of devices to allow individuals to control digital and physical environments with their minds.
In a shot across the bows of Elon Musk’s rival BCI platform Neuralink, Synchron gave a presentation on the ‘cognitive AI’, dubbed Chiral, at the GTC 2025 event hosted by Nvidia, its development partner for the technology. Chiral is being described as a “foundation model” for human cognition.
At the show, Synchron demonstrated how its Stentrode BCI, a stent-like device implanted via the neck into blood vessels near the brain’s motor cortex, could work with Nvidia AI and an Apple Vision Pro headset to...