Elon Musk reveals first human has had a BRAIN implant from Neuralink's new 'Telepathy' product - allowing people to use technology 'just by thinking'
Daily MailElon Musk has revealed a patient has become the first human to have a Neuralink microchip implanted into their brain. Musk on Monday announced that the first person had received a Neuralink brain implant Musk wrote on X on Monday night: 'The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well. NEURALINK: ELON MUSK'S PLAY FOR COMPUTER-BRAIN INTERFACES Elon Musk's Neuralink is working to link the human brain with a machine interface by creating micron-sized devices. Details of the patient were not given, but Ashlee Vance, who wrote a 2015 biography, 'Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future', wrote in a Bloomberg report that the ideal candidate for Neuralink's first human trial was 'an adult under age 40 whose four limbs are paralyzed'. Vance, who said he had visited Neuralink's facilities 10 times in three years, also revealed how Musk had pushed his company to ward off the threat of similar brain-computer start-ups Synchron and Onward.