Neuralink Has Implanted Over Two Dozen People, Musk Still Weighs In Weekly
XFreeze · x · 2026-09-21
Neuralink President DJ Seo says Elon Musk remains deeply involved nearly 10 years after founding the company — meeting with the team weekly (often more frequently) and still making key technical and engineering decisions.
Progress so far:
- More than two dozen people implanted across expanding human trials, controlling computers with thought, creating art, regaining independence
- The VOICE program recently showed a participant turning intended speech directly into audible words via the implant
The post frames this as a decade of relentless engineering across Musk's simultaneous roles at Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and The Boring Company — with Neuralink, in its words, "still only at the beginning."
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