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Summary
- Elon Musk recently tweeted about job openings at Neuralink Corp, sending investors on a hunt to learn more about the company.
- He wrote that people with the skills and experience to work on “advanced wearables, phones or robots” would be needed at Neuralink.
- Mr Musk co-founded the neurotechnology company, Neuralink, which came into being in San Francisco’s Bay Area in 2016.
Tesla Inc founder Elon Musk’s latest tweets have sent investors on a hunt to learn more about ‘Neuralink’. The billionaire first tweeted about job openings at the neurotechnology firm where short-term goals would comprise solving brain and spine-related injuries and long-term goals would be about human and artificial intelligence (AI) symbiosis. He added that the latter would be "species-level important".
Mr Musk then posted a tweet saying that people with the skills and experience to work on “advanced wearables, phones or robots” would also be needed at Neuralink.
Like most of the things he tweets about, most recently GameStop’s wild stock surge, Dogecoin and his opinion of the 2020 action video game Cyberpunk 2077, Mr Musk’s tweets about Neuralink has boosted a curiosity around it. Let’s dive in to understand what exactly this privately owned company is.
What is Neuralink?
Co-founded by Mr Musk, the world’s richest billionare, Neuralink came into being in San Francisco’s Bay Area in 2016. The company is focused on developing brain-machine interfaces that could help cure neurological ailments like Alzheimer's, spinal cord injuries, etc. and ultimately bridge the gap between humans and AI technology.
The SpaceX head honcho had previously tweeted about Neuralink in August last year, posting an update about how a "Fitbit-like" implant was "working" in pigs. In an interview on Sunday, January 31, he assured that newer updates about the progress of the Neuralink’s research would be coming in a month or so.
Mr Musk reportedly talked about wireless implants inside the brain of a monkey that plays video games “using his mind", although he quickly added that such researches would be in the long-term goals for Neuralink’s brain-implant devices. He also clarified that initial studies at the neurotech firm focuses on helping people with brain and spine injuries.
Reports from earlier in January suggest that Neuralink Corp is looking to build physical facilities in Austin, Texas, as it recently posted on its website a vacancy for a “head of construction” in Austin. Mr Musk, too, mentioned in his latest tweet that the job openings are based in Bay Area and Texas.
