Elon Musk’s Neuralink Reports Success In Second Patient’s Implant With No Issues
News 18Neuralink has reported that a second trial patient is benefiting from the implant. As reported by the company to Reuters, Alex, the patient, did not experience “thread retraction” in contrast to Noland Arbaugh, who became Neuralink's first patient and had the implant in January. The business went on to say that in order to avoid similar problems with its second patient, it took steps including reducing how much the brain moved during surgery and minimising the space between the implant and the surface of the brain. According to Musk, the second patient's brain has 400 operational electrodes from the implant. Musk said to podcast host Lex Fridman, “I don't want to jinx it, but it seems to have gone extremely well with the second implant.” “There’s a lot of signal, a lot of electrodes.