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Sep 23, 2026
HE THOUGHT “I LOVE YOU.” HIS OWN VOICE SAID IT OUT LOUD
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Neuralink
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Neuralink decoded “I, I love you” straight from the cortex of Terry, an ALS patient in its VOICE trial, voiced through an AI clone of his own pre-ALS recordings via xAI’s Grok Voice — 5.4 million views in 48 hours.
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Oct 2, 2026
NEURALINK SET A BRAIN-CONTROL RECORD: 11.32 BITS PER SECOND
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Neuralink puts brain-computer interfaces into human skulls to restore communication and movement: its VOICE trial decoded an ALS patient’s thoughts into his own cloned voice, and its motor decoder set a cursor-control record of 11.32 bits per second after training on 50,000+ hours of neural data. The demos are loud — 5.4 million views in 48 hours — but the hard numbers (word-error rate, vocabulary size) are still unpublished, and the N1 implant is not FDA-approved.
Sep 23, 2026
HE THOUGHT “I LOVE YOU.” HIS OWN VOICE SAID IT OUT LOUD
Neuralink published video of Terry, a married man with bulbar-onset ALS, saying “I, I love you” to his wife — decoded straight from cortical activity and voiced through an AI clone of his own pre-ALS recordings via xAI’s Grok Voice. It is Neuralink’s most detailed publicly disclosed thought-to-speech demo, from the third participant in its VOICE early-feasibility trial, and crossed 5.4 million views in 48 hours. Neuralink has not published word-error rate, speed, or vocabulary size, and the N1 implant holds FDA Breakthrough Device Designation but is not approved or commercially available.
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Oct 2, 2026
NEURALINK SET A BRAIN-CONTROL RECORD: 11.32 BITS PER SECOND
Neuralink says its brain-computer interface hit a cursor-control record of 11.32 bits per second after training a foundation model on more than 50,000 hours of neural activity from clinical trial participants. Self-supervised neural encoders learned stable representations from unlabeled signals, cutting some participants’ calibration from about 10 minutes a day to 10 minutes a week, and its “teleporting cursors” jump straight to the intended target. The claim of beating most able-bodied people has not been independently verified, and the results were released as a technical update, not a peer-reviewed study.
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- FOUNDED
- 2016Wikipedia
- HEADQUARTERS
- Fremont, California, United StatesWikipedia
- STATUS
- PrivateWikipedia
- LEADER
- Elon Musk · co-founderWikipedia
- AI PRODUCTS
- Telepathy (N1 brain implant) and Blindsight (vision restoration); first human implant January 2024 (Noland Arbaugh); VOICE trial decoded thought to audio in ALS participant Terry (September 2026)WikipediaInside BCI
- FUNDING
- $650M Series E at a reported $9B pre-money valuation, per Semafor; backers include ARK, Sequoia, Founders Fund, Lightspeed, Thrive · as of Jun 2, 2025TechCrunchSiliconANGLE