Neuralink is revealed as Musk's brain-computer interface startup
Reports in March 2017 revealed that Elon Musk had co-founded a company to build implantable brain-computer interfaces.
Archive entry. This article looks back at an event from March 27, 2017. It was drafted with AI assistance from public records and is being fact-checked. See our About page.
In March 2017, the Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk was behind Neuralink, a company working on devices that connect the human brain to computers. It had been founded in 2016.
Musk later said the long-term aim was to help people with severe neurological conditions and, eventually, to give people a way to keep pace with artificial intelligence.
Neuralink spent several years on animal testing and surgical robot development before moving to human trials.
