NEURALINK

Elon Musk says he will soon mass-produce brain implants.

This guy has got to be a genius in almost everything.

Elon Musk said on X that Neuralink aims for “high-volume production” of its brain implants and automated neurosurgery this year, pushing brain computer interfaces out of bespoke experiments and into scalable medicine.

Neuralink says about a dozen severely paralyzed patients now use its implant to control a computer cursor and play games using only their thoughts.

The first wave of applications targets people with serious neurological disorders, helping them communicate and manage daily tasks.

Musk said the device’s threads will pass through the dura mater, the protective membrane around the brain, without surgeons needing to remove it.​

Neuralink still needs to clear clinical trials and secure full FDA approval before it can move from tightly controlled experiments to routine medical use in the U.S.

Elon has previously talked about scaling to more than a thousand patients by 2026, backed by a hiring spree. 

If he can pull that off ahead of rivals like Synchron and Precision Neuroscience, the company will be first to test whether BCIs can move from a medical moonshot to something closer to a commercial product.

This is part of the long-term vision Elon Musk has described. 

A few important caveats

Current human use is still at an early stage and focused on people with disabilities. 

Many advanced ideas, like cognitive enhancement or true two-way high-bandwidth signals, remain experimental, speculative, and far from mainstream clinical use. 

Right now, Neuralink’s implants let paralyzed people use computers, play games, and control robotic devices with their thoughts. 

Researchers are actively working on expanding this technology to restore movement, speech, and even sensory functions, such as vision, with futuristic goals of brain-to-brain communication and human-AI integration still on the horizon.

Thank you for reading,

Tim.


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