At the end of May, it became known that after repeated attempts to obtain permission from U.S. regulators to conduct an experiment on implanting a brain implant in humans, the startup Neuralink of Elon Musk achieved its goal, and in mid-June, he said that he was going to conduct the first operation of this kind this year. After that, the company managed to raise $280 million in capital.
This information became known this week, as Reuters explains. This time, the investor of the startup was Founders Fund, which invested about $280 million in the capital of Neuralink. In total, since its foundation, Neuralink managed to attract $640 million, and the total capitalization of the startup was recently estimated at $5 billion. Representatives of Neuralink from the pages of the platform X owned by Musk only said that they are excited about this new chapter in the life of the company.
So far, Elon Musk's startup has experimented with implanting an implant into the brains of animals, showing the public a monkey capable of controlling a cursor on a computer display "by the power of thought." The company has been embroiled in a series of scandals, accused of inhumane treatment of test animals and careless transportation of biological material. Last month, Elon Musk said Tesla and Neuralink could join forces to produce bionic prosthetic limbs controlled by brain implants. This would make it possible to conditionally return limbs to people who have lost them due to circumstances.
