This week’s Not Boring email discusses the strides being made in the development of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCIs), with particular focus on California-based company Neuralink and its first non-verbal ALS patient, who has been enabled to control his MacBook using only brain signals.
The company has now developed a prototype of its brain implant, which can be used to help people with neurological conditions such as ALS to regain communication skills, and is now hoping to trial the product on humans within the next year.
Neuralink isn’t the only company making strides in the BCI space, with AI company Vana and Flower AI partnering to create a 7 billion parameter model, called Collective-1, which is the first large language model to be trained using GPUs across the world, on both private and public datasets.
The pair are now working on scaling up to 30 and 100 billion parameter models.
