🤖 Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup

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In today’s AI Report:

• 🧠Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup

• ⚙️xAI Is Launching Grok This Week

• 🛠5 Trending Tools

• 💰Venture Capital Updates

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

NEURALINK

🧠Elon Musk’s Brain Implant Startup

Neuralink, Elon Musk’s venture that develops chip implants to monitor brain waves, secured an additional $43 million in venture capital funding.

Key Details:

• Neuralink formulated a sewing-machine-like device capable of implanting ultra-thin threads inside the brain. The threads connect to a processor containing electrodes capable of decoding information from groups of neurons.

• These wireless implants read signals from a paralyzed patient’s brain and transmit the data to an external device like an iPhone.

• Elon Musk explained that the venture’s goal is “to achieve a symbiosis with artificial intelligence” that helps humans “merge with AI.”

Why It’s Important:

• Neuralink strives to aid individuals with paralysis in communicating by remotely controlling devices using brain activity. This venture will enhance user memory, strengthen cognitive abilities, and restore a user’s motor functions.

• This week’s SEC filing confirms the company increased its valuation from $280 million in early August to $323 million today. Reuters reported the company was valued at $5 billion in June after privately executed stock trades.

• In 2022, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) alleged Neuralink mistreated countless monkeys involved with testing the hardware by subjecting them to physiological distress and chronic infections.

XAI

⚙️xAI Is Launching Grok This Week

Elon Musk’s latest project, xAI, plans to launch its conversational chatbot Grok for X Premium+ subscribers this week.

Key Details:

• Grok is an open-source conversational chatbot that accesses real-time knowledge through the X platform to provide answers with a witty personality and rebellious streak.

• Grok is a new feature of a higher-priced X Premium+ subscription that costs $16 monthly.

• Grok will be implemented directly into X’s interface (formerly Twitter) with a unique tab within the platform.

Why It’s Important:

• Unlike other AI platforms chatbots that are serious in their interactions, Grok is designed to answer questions with humor. This ability to use sarcasm provides a human touch to AI interactions.

• As Satya D., a search engine optimizer at Surfer, explained, “Grok’s understanding of language nuances and human behavior allows it to deliver quick-witted and humorous responses filled with quips, puns, and sarcasm.”

🛠TRENDING TOOLS

📖SRead is a reading assistant that lets you chat with online articles.

🌌Noiselith helps you create images freely on your device without relying on the cloud.

🪞HeyMind is a mirror for the mind.

💬Proseable is a free AI-powered language learning assistant.

🗂Dokkio finds, organizes, and understands all your online files.

💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES

• AI-enabled radiology performance platform Covera Health secures $50M.

• Italian startup Planet Farms raises $40M for its vertical farming technology.

• Birdseye raises $3M in seed funding to revolutionize how brands and retailers target customers.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Shield AI (Dallas, TX): Technical Publications Manager

• Robust Intelligence (San Francisco, CA): AI Security Engineer

• Notion (San Francisco, CA): Software Engineer, Data Platform

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