Brain–computer interface

That learning enabled the AI, the system, to learn how to detect her intention to play hundreds of milliseconds before she consciously attempted to do so, says trial leader Richard Anderson.

Smith is one of roughly 90 people there at Caltech, by the way, who over the past two decades have had BCIs implanted to control assisted technologies, such as computers, robotic arms, synthetic voice generators.

These volunteers are paralyzed by spinal cord injuries, strokes, or other neuromuscular disorders such as ALS.

And they've demonstrated quite well that command signals for the body's muscles are In other words, imagining you're moving your foot or your finger, recorded from the brain's motor cortex, as people imagine moving, can be successfully decoded into commands for connected devices.

Smith, who died of cancer in 2023, was among the first volunteers to have an extra interface implanted in an area called the posterior parietal cortex.

an area that's very important for reasoning, attention, and, key here, planning.

Anderson and his team think that by also capturing the user's intentions and premotor planning, such dual implant BCIs will improve the performance of prosthetic devices.

I want to just say as an aside here that we've already reported on this curious fact that people's arms begin moving before they consciously have decided to move their arm.

What are we doing to improve access for non-pharmaceutical treatments? And obviously, TMS is pretty the most proven treatment of that, but how do we improve accessibility with accelerated protocols? Neurodegenerative, the next piece, obviously amazing to hear your work in that space with the guys at Synaptica, but also there's some incredible technologies being built, like wearable devices, like light therapy, sound therapy, and so forth.

then the final one is brain data and it's like all those three things kind of well there's two things combining to brain data and what we're doing with that data i think is really key you touched on that point there i think as well the foundational models is often a big conversation with people being built from the latest buzzword in neurotech i think it's overtaken bci i think and yeah yeah

bci that's that's the thing that's the thing and then and we are part of bci i mean to be yeah of course we should be but i I have a practical way where we are part of BCI is that we have systems deployed, for example, in Technical University of Munich in Germany.

They've been helping patients with either motor deficits or problems with the speech, so aphasia.

And placing, let's say, a coin-sized implant, I'm simplifying, maybe there are other sizes out there, but typically it's a relatively small implant that you're putting into the brain.

But PCI, of course, is more wide.

It's interesting how things can start evolving with AI coming into play and reading more data.

Is there some secret Nextim R&D BCI project in the works that we haven't heard

Biotech covers a wide range of different sectors, including medicine, agriculture, and genetics.

China puts biotech as a core strategic priority alongside AI, quantum technology, nuclear fusion, and brain-computer interface.

Should China further develop its biotech with the help of American investors, China could gain even more leverage around the world and threaten U.S. national security.

Some American investors are pushing back against the proposal to restrict American dollars from going into Chinese biotech, arguing that this could hurt American companies and public health.

There's more than 30 nations now that are actually being trained as pilots.

And Stargate and Brain Interface is the core technology that's down there.

So the key capabilities claimed.

There's an anti-gravity fleet, craft that modify gravitational fields rather than using conventional propulsion.

There's a mercury stargate.

It's a sealed chamber using liquid mercury for energy matter convergence and transfer.

Brain interface flight.

Pilots control vehicles through thought alone via advanced neural interfaces.

Like we like to say, we haven't unleashed that ability.

And the technology we've built, the BCIs, the AI models, kind of the robotic platform, all of this really unleashes their superpower that has existed and we've trusted for millennia.

So Grail is

at 50%, your .BCI is at 90%.

So like here we are, I think the cusp of like really starting to change how oncology and like early detection could work.

Yeah,

it's a pretty cool and unique concept, as you said, working with dozens of dogs and building like high tech BCIs and automation and combining this very old thing and very very cutting edge tech thing to do cancer diagnostics and I'm guessing there's a very good story I invested in you guys about a year ago and like when I talk about my portfolio companies you are one of the most interesting ones to describe because everybody goes instantly like oh wow this is so cool this is so weird I had not heard about that so I'm guessing that must that story must be helping you a lot with hiring people as well and

Yeah, no, it's been great, especially since we published the paper in April.