Company type | Private |
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Industry | Neurotechnology |
Founded | June 21, 2016 |
Founder | Elon Musk |
Headquarters | Fremont, California, United States[1] |
Key people | Jared Birchall (CEO)[2] |
Owner | Elon Musk |
Number of employees | c. 300[3] (2022) |
Website | neuralink |
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Neuralink Corp.[4] is an American neurotechnology company that has developed, as of 2024, implantable brain–computer interfaces (BCIs). It was founded by Elon Musk and a team of seven scientists and engineers (Max Hodak, Benjamin Rapoport, Dongjin Seo, Paul Merolla, Philip Sabes, Tim Gardner, Tim Hanson, and Vanessa Tolosa).[4][5][6][7] Neuralink was launched in 2016 and was first publicly reported in March 2017.[8][9][10][11] The company is based in Fremont, California with plans to build a three-story building with office and manufacturing space near Austin, Texas in Del Valle, located about 10 miles east of Tesla's headquarters and manufacturing plant that opened in 2022.[5]
Since its founding, the company has hired several high-profile neuroscientists from various universities.[12] By July 2019, it had received $158 million in funding (of which $100 million was from Musk) and was employing a staff of 90 employees.[13] At that time, Neuralink announced that it was working on a "sewing machine-like" device capable of implanting very thin (4 to 6 μm in width)[14] threads into the brain, and demonstrated a system that reads information from a lab rat via 1,500 electrodes. They had anticipated starting experiments with humans in 2020,[13] but have since moved that projection to 2023. As of May 2023, they have been approved for human trials in the United States.[6]
The company has faced criticism for a large amount of euthanization of primates that underwent medical trials. Veterinary records of the monkeys showed a number of complications with electrodes being surgically implanted.[15] On January 29, 2024, Musk announced that Neuralink had successfully implanted a Neuralink device in a human and that the patient was recovering.[16]
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