The first human patient received an implant from Elon Musk’s computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend, the billionaire says.
In a post Monday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was “recovering well.” He added that “initial results show promising neuron spike detection.”
Spikes are activity by neurons, which the National Institutes of Health describe as cells that use electrical and chemical signals to send information around the brain and to the body.
The billionaire, who owns X and co-founded Neuralink, did not provide additional details about the patient.
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