This is a timeline of Neuralink.
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Big picture
Time period | Development summary |
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2016 | Neuralink launches. |
2017 | Neuralink is announced publicly. |
2018 | |
2019 |
Full timeline
Year | Month and date | Event type | Details |
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2016 | July 11 | Launch | Neurlaink is founded.[1] |
2017 | January | Elon Musk buys the name Neuralink to a pair of neurotechnology researchers that owned the trademark on "NeuraLink" since 2015 after creating their own startup company.[2] | |
2017 | February | Neuralink executive Jared Birchall submits a letter to the city of San Francisco's planning department giving some clues about the company’s plans and files permit to build biological research lab.[3] | |
2017 | March 28 | Elon Musk confirms the existence of Neuralink, and reveals that a longer story about Neuralink would appear on explainer website Wait But Why in a week.[4][5] | |
2017 | April 20 | Wait But Why editor Tim Urban posts the first deep look at Neuralink, after Musk petition from about a month and a half before.[6] Musk confirms plans for the company, revealing he will be the chief executive of a startup that aims to merge computers with brains so humans could one day engage in “consensual telepathy.”[7] | |
2017 | July 19 | Elon Musk talks about Neuralink in an interview at the ISS R&D Conference in Washington, DC., and says the reason he went to create Neuralink was primarily as an offset to the existencial risk associated with artificial intelligence.[8] | |
2017 | February | Notable comment | Elon Musk claims “that people would need to become cyborgs to be relevant in an artificial intelligence age.“[9][10] |
2018 | May | Neuralink agrees to fund primate research at the University of California. The company i expected to pay US$796,006 for research conducted at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center, one of seven centers nationwide dedicated to the study of health and disease on primates.[11][12] | |
2018 | November | In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, Elon Musk says Neuralink aspires to symbiotically merge human brains with a super digital intelligence that will serve as a tertiary cognition layer augmenting the human cortex and limbic systems.[13][14] | |
2018 | November 26 | Elon Musk tweets mentioning Neuralink for the first time in 20 months, inviting people to apply for jobs at the firm alongside three of his other companies.[15][16] | |
2019 | July | Growth | Neuralink cumulates US$158 million in funding (of which $100 million comes from Musk) and employs a staff of 90 employees.[17] |
2020 | According to July 19 Elon Musk's report, Neuralink human test of brain-computer interface could start around this year.[18][19][20] |
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References
- ↑ "Neuralink". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Meet the Guys Who Sold "Neuralink" to Elon Musk without Even Realizing It". technologyreview.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Elon Musk's Neuralink files permit to build biological research lab". teslarati.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Neuralink". witter.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ Constine, Josh. "Elon Musk's brain interface startup Neuralink files $27M fundraise". techcrunch.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future". waitbutwhy.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Elon Musk Lays Out Plans to Meld Brains and Computers". wsj.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Elon Musk - A.I., Biology, Neuralink". youtube.com. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ Isackson, Peter. "The Daily Devil's Dictionary: Will "Everyone" Benefit?". fairobserver.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Elon Musk says plan to merge humans with machines is aimed at stopping a 'Terminator'-style scenario". cnbc.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Neuralink Is Funding Primate Research at the University of California". gizmodo.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Neuralink - UC Davis Primate Center - Services Agreement". scribd.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Elon Musk on Joe Rogan - what is Neuralink". youtube.com. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ "Elon Musk's Neuralink Plans to Put Chips in Human Brains by 2020". syncedreview.com. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ "Elon Musk Breaks Twitter Silence on Secretive A.I.-Brain Firm Neuralink". inverse.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ "Neuralink". twitter.com. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
- ↑ Markoff, John (2019-07-16). "Elon Musk's Company Takes Baby Steps to Wiring Brains to the Internet". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-17.
- ↑ "Elon Musk says Neuralink plans 2020 human test of brain-computer interface". cnet.com. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ "Elon Musk's Neuralink targets human trials for brain-machine interface in 2020". teslarati.com. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
- ↑ "Elon Musk Plans to Start Putting Chips in Human Brains Next Year". highsnobiety.com. Retrieved 1 August 2019.