Neuralink receives $280 million funding from a familiar name
Neuralink, the ''brain-hacking'' firm backed by entrepreneur Elon Musk, has successfully secured a staggering $280 million in funding for their cutting-edge brain-computer interface (BCI) project.
Imagine if your brain could talk to a computer directly. Like, you think of something, and the computer understands it. That's what Neuralink is working on - a brain-computer interface.
Now, here's the twist. While this brain-computer thing sounds awesome, there's also a debate that you can't ignore. Neuralink is doing tests on animals to make sure everything's safe. But some people are worried if it's okay to test on animals. It's like a superhero dilemma - using science for good, but also making sure it's responsible.
Peter Thiel becomes Musk's savior
Elon Musk's Neuralink got a massive amount of money, $280 million to be exact, to keep working on their brain-computer idea, with help from Peter Thiel's Founders Fund.
Even though works of Neuralink have been repeatedly rejected by the supervisory boards, such funding is crucial for the complex and resource-intensive research that Neuralink is pioneering, ultimately aiming to seamlessly integrate technology with the human brain, which finally got the approval of FDA.
Neuralink revealed through a brief xeet on Monday that it has secured $280 million in Series D funding from Peter Thiel.
We’re happy to announce our $280M Series D round led by @foundersfund. We’re extremely excited about this next chapter at Neuralink.
If you’d like to help make the first human experience incredible and work on engineering challenges to restore vision and mobility, come join!…
— Neuralink (@neuralink) August 7, 2023
Who is Peter Thiel?
Born on October 11, 1967, in Frankfurt, West Germany, Peter Thiel is a pretty remarkable entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and someone who's into making a big impact on the world.
In 2002, Peter Thiel founded Clarium Capital Management LLC, a hedge fund that focused on global macro investment strategies. The firm initially experienced growth, with its assets under management reaching $8 billion in 2008.
Peter Thiel's most notable ventures include co-founding PayPal and Palantir Technologies. He co-founded PayPal, a successful online payment platform, after merging his company Confinity with X.com.
PayPal revolutionized online money transfers and was eventually acquired by eBay in 2002. Thiel's involvement in PayPal's success led to significant recognition in the tech industry. He also co-founded Palantir Technologies in 2004, a company specializing in data analytics.
Apart from his entrepreneurial pursuits, Thiel is known for his investments in various startups, including a notable early investment in Facebook.
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Martin, I would appreciate that you do not censor this post, as it’s informative writing.
Onur, there is a misleading statement “[…] GIFs are animated images …”. No, obviously you don’t seem to have take much notice of what you were told back in March regarding; Graphics Interchange Format (GIF).
For example, https://www.ghacks.net/2023/03/31/whats-gif-explanation-and-how-to-use-it/#comment-4562919 (if you had read my replies within that thread, you might have learnt something useful). I even mentioned, “GIF intrinsically supports animated images (GIF89a)”.
You linked to said article, [Related: …] within this article, but have somehow failed to take onboard what support you were given by several more knowledgeable people.
If you used AI to help write this article, it has failed miserably.
AI is stupid, and it will not get any better if we really know how this all works. Prove me wrong.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IYl1sTIOHI
Martin, [#comment-4569908] is only meant to be in: [https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/09/how-to-send-gifs-on-iphone-two-different-ways/]. Whereas it appears duplicated in several recent random low-quality non relevant articles.
Obviously it [#comment-4569908] was posted: 9 July 2023. Long before this thread even existed… your database is falling over. Those comments are supposed to have unique ID values. It shouldn’t be possible to duplicate the post ID, if the database had referential integrity.
Don’t tell me!
Ghacks wants the state to step in for STATE-MANDATED associations to save jobs!!!
Bring in the dictatorship!!!
And screw Rreedom of Association – too radical for Ghacks maybe
GateKeeper ?
That’s called “appointing” businesses to do the state’s dirty work!!!!!
But the article says itself that those appointed were not happy – implying they had not choice!!!!!!
@The Dark Lady,
@KeZa,
@Database failure,
@Howard Pearce,
@Howard Allan Pearce,
Note: I replaced the quoted URI scheme: https:// with “>>” and posted.
The current ghacks.net is owned by “Softonic International S.A.” (sold by Martin in October 2019), and due to the fate of M&A, ghacks.net has changed in quality.
>> ghacks.net/2023/09/02/microsoft-is-removing-wordpad-from-windows/#comment-4573130
Many Authors of bloggers and advertisers certified by Softonic have joined the site, and the site is full of articles aimed at advertising and clickbait.
>> ghacks.net/2023/08/31/in-windows-11-the-line-between-legitimate-and-adware-becomes-increasingly-blurred/#comment-4573117
As it stands, except for articles by Martin Brinkmann, Mike Turcotte, and Ashwin, they are low quality, unhelpful, and even vicious. It is better not to read those articles.
How to display only articles by a specific author:
Added line to My filters in uBlock Origin: ghacks.net##.hentry,.home-posts,.home-category-post:not(:has-text(/Martin Brinkmann|Mike Turcotte|Ashwin/))
>> ghacks.net/2023/09/01/windows-11-development-overview-of-the-august-2023-changes/#comment-4573033
By the way, if you use an RSS reader, you can track exactly where your comments are (I’m an iPad user, so I use “Feedly Classic”, but for Windows I prefer the desktop app “RSS Guard”).
RSS Guard: Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.
>> github.com/martinrotter/rssguard#readme
We all live in digital surveillance glass houses under scrutiny of evil people because of people like Musk. It’s only fair that he takes his turn.
“Operating systems will be required to let the user choose the browser, virtual assistant and search engine of their choice. Microsoft cannot force users to use Bing or Edge. Apple will have to open up its iOS operating system to allow third-party app stores, aka allow sideloading of apps. Google, on the other hand, will need to provide users with the ability to uninstall preloaded apps (bloatware) from Android devices. Online services will need to allow users to unsubscribe from their platform easily. Gatekeepers need to provide interoperability with third-parties that offer similar services.”
Wonderful ! Let’s hope they’ll comply with that law more than they are doing with the GDPR.