“Neuralink is trying to give recipients the ability to move a mouse in various directions and hold a button down,” Musk said. “We’re trying to get as many button presses as possible through thinking, so that’s what we’re currently working on.”

Everyone has their own journey with Neuralink, but we’ve seen peak independent use of over 100 hours / week!

Alex, our second participant, controls a virtual robot hand with his mind to play rock, paper, scissors against his uncle.

The Future of Neuralink:

We are witnessing a truly *historic* technology develop in real-time. The idea of implanting a device to regulate electrical pulses in the brain used to be stuck in academic labs. But Neuralink is bringing this technology to the masses.

They are productizing brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) by making them mass manufacturable. They are making it so you and I can easily choose to connect our biological computers with digital supercomputers.

And in the meantime, they are working on a mission I find more inspiring than any other- relieving pain and suffering due to a wide variety of brain and spine problems.

We've already seen the tremendous positive impact these devices have had on the first 7 human trial participants. Billions of people- almost half the world population has some brain problem.

Right now, the company employs ~500 people, is valued at ~$9 billion, and has a 1,024 channel device that can read neurons.

I predict in 12-13 years, the company will have implanted in 1,000,000 people, employ 50,000 people, have a valuation of $1 trillion, and have a larger 1,000,000 channel device that can read and stimulate neurons.

But those are just some ways to quantify the very real impact it will have on:
- Helping us understand human consciousness and unlock "secrets" of the brain
- Reducing pain and suffering due to brain and spine problems
- Connecting us to digital superintelligence, which btw, how insane will it be for your limbic system + cortex to work directly alongside Grok v20!? 🤯

Elon Musk: Neuralink will enable you to communicate thousands of times faster than currently possible.

“When you're trying to communicate with somebody else, you're actually trying to model their mind state and then take quite a complex idea that you have, maybe even a complex image or scene or kind of mental video, and try to compress that into a few words or a few keystrokes. It's necessarily going to be very lossy.

Your ability to communicate is very limited by how fast you can talk and how fast you can type. And what we're talking about is unlocking that potential to enable you to communicate thousands, perhaps millions of times faster than is currently possible. This is an incredibly profound breakthrough. This would be a fundamental change to what it means to be a human.”

From: Neuralink presentation, June 27, 2025

The battery inside a Neuralink implant:

Elon Musk says, I've been kind of worried at times, because we're creating intelligence far greater than our own

Will this be bad or good for humanity? I think it'll be good. But if it wasn't going to be good, I'd at least like to be alive to see it happen

We successfully completed both P8 and P9 this weekend, our first time performing two surgeries in one day. Both participants are recovering well and in great spirits. We are looking forward to supporting them on their Neuralink journey.

🗣 Elon Musk: Neuralink will do live-changing good for ultimately millions, maybe billions, of people.

Imagine your loved one being able to walk again or your parent with dementia being able to recognize their child again.