The company, which implants experimental brain chips to help paralyzed patients, raised $600 million from private investors, people familiar with the matter said.
    • Lembot_0002@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 days ago

      You can’t expect research to be self-funding. And it doesn’t look like begging.

        • Lembot_0002@lemm.eeEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Continue the research until the result would be self-funding.

          That’s how researchers work. First you pour resources into it, then it might provide you with something sellable. Eventually. Maybe. Or not.

        • ExLisperAEnglish
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          5 days ago

          Sell brain-computer interfaces to people. I’m not saying that Neuralink will ever get there or that it’s a good idea but the goal is to improve on the way we communicate with computers. My guess is that Elon’s vision is some Neuralink clinics that for small price drill a hole in your skull and implant a chip. The $9B valuation is obviously just pure fantasy at this point and the $600m invested is probably from some billionaires that don’t know what to invest in anymore.