Neuralink tops 50,000 implant hours, hits 11.32 bps cursor-control record with BCI foundation model
skorusARK · x · 2026-10-03
Neuralink reports clinical trial participants have used its implants for over 50,000 hours, forming one of the largest intracortical neural datasets ever. The team used it to pretrain a BCI foundation model with self-supervised encoders that turn noisy, drifting spikes into stable representations — yielding decoders that work for weeks (calibration down from 10 min/day to 10 min/week), cursor "teleporting", and a new cursor-control record of 11.32 bits per second, exceeding most able-bodied performance.
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