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🤖 Neuralink Patient Plays Chess With His Mind
PLUS: Nvidia Unveils Medicine and Health Care AI Tools, Stanford Enables AI Models to Think Before Speaking

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In today’s AI Report:
🧠Neuralink Patient Plays Chess With His Mind
🚑Nvidia Unveils Medicine and Health Care AI Tools
🗣Stanford Enables AI Models to Think Before Speaking
🛠5 Trending Tools
💰Venture Capital Updates
💼Who’s Hiring?
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🗞RECENT NEWS
NEURALINK
🧠Neuralink Patient Plays Chess With His Mind

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Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a startup building a brain-computer interface to translate thoughts into action, live-streamed their first patient using his mind to play online chess.
Key Details:
Noland Arbaugh, the 29-year-old patient who was paralyzed below the shoulders after a diving accident, has been exploring seamless human-computer interactions.
In January, Arbaugh received the implant from Neuralink to explore how technology could help paralyzed patients regain control over their bodies.
In a video on Musk’s X platform, Arbaugh explained how the surgery was easy and painless: “I literally was released from the hospital a day later. I have no cognitive impairments.”
Leveraging Neuralink’s N1 Implant, he played online chess and Civilization VI for eight hours straight.
Musk recently announced that Neuralink’s next product is “Blindsight,” which aims to restore the vision of individuals who were born blind.
Why It’s Important:
The N1 Implant contains a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) that interprets a person’s neural activity, allowing users to control a computer or smartphone without wires or physical movement. This technology provides life-changing independence for paralyzed patients.
Arbaugh added that the technology isn’t “perfect,” and they “have run into some issues.” So, “there’s a lot of work to be done, but it has already changed my life.”
NVIDIA
🚑Nvidia Unveils Medicine and Health Care AI Tools

Image Source: Duy Ho/Fortune
Last week at the 2024 GTC AI Conference, Nvidia unveiled over two dozen new healthcare-focused AI tools to convey the company’s interest in the medical sector.
Key Details:
Nvidia announced partnerships with Abridge, Microsoft, Hippocratic AI, Johnson & Johnson, and GE HealthCare to enable healthcare enterprises to leverage AI models for drug discovery, digital health, and performing surgeries.
The main healthcare-focused AI tools include:
Diagnostic Imaging: accelerate ultrasound analysis.
Digital Surgery: guide surgeons with tool tracking and alerts.
Digital Pathology: identify abnormalities in tumor microenvironments.
Genomic Sequencing: streamline the identification of patient risk factors for diseases.
Patient Monitoring: prevent falls and alert clinical teams if they need to equip protective gear.
Nvidia Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Colette Kress explained: “In healthcare, digital biology and generative AI are helping reinvent drug discovery, surgery, medical imaging, and wearable devices.”
Why It’s Important:
AI-powered medical devices can help clinicians detect and measure anomalies, up-level surgical skills, enhance image quality, and optimize workflows.
AI models can analyze medical images (e.g., ultrasounds or scans) and genomic data much faster than humans, potentially leading to quicker diagnoses and more targeted treatments.
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AI RESEARCH
🗣Stanford Enables AI Models to Think Before Speaking
Stanford researchers developed Quiet-STaR, a training method that teaches language models to generate rationales or inner monologues before responding to user prompts.
Language models typically generate text one word or “token” at a time, which can be slow and inefficient, especially for complex questions.
Quiet-STaR deploys an algorithm called “tokenwise parallel sampling” to predict multiple words simultaneously within a user’s prompt. This algorithm helps AI models answer difficult-to-predict tokens, improving the language model’s ability to answer difficult questions.
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💰VENTURE CAPITAL UPDATES
HeyGen, a startup that uses AI to generate avatars and voices for videos, raises $60M.
Foundry emerges from stealth with $80M for purpose-built AI cloud technology.
Ai Palette secures $5.7M to expand its AI-powered insights and add a FoodGPT chatbot.
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